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Quotes About Blood

What is blood but the wine of life?
~ Vera Nazarian
And the noise has turned into waves of blood inside the heart.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
~ Walt Whitman
If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month?
~ Chelsea Handler
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
~ Eric Ambler
There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.
~ Unknown
You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'
~ Dick Armey
MARAT O que é uma banheira de sangue perto do sangue que ainda há de correr Um dia pensamos que algumas centenas de mortos seriam o bastate depois vimos que mesmo milhares eram insuficientes E hoje não podem mais ser contados ali e em todo lugar em todo lugar (...) Simonne Ouço o clamor dentro de mim Simonne Eu sou a Revolução.
~ Peter Weiss
So Rwandan history is dangerous. Like all of history, it is a record of successive struggles for power, and to a very large extent power consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality - even, as is so often the case, when that story is written in their blood.
~ Philip Gourevitch
Shadows would be moving inside shadows; daggers would be unsheathed; the air would get gray and chill with stealth and intrigue; blood would spurt. And the sleeping would do well to stir.
~ Philip José Farmer
A gray-pink salmon leaping up the falls of night Into the spawning pool of another day. Dawn-the red roar of the heliac bull Charging over the horizon. The photonic blood of bleeding night, Stabbed by the assassin sun.
~ Philip José Farmer
Blood, Herr Reiss, can never be eradicated like ink.
~ Philip K. Dick
Herr Konsul, sorry to take your time." A man's voice. The blood in Reiss' veins instantly stopped its motion.
~ Philip K. Dick
Shock, and loss of blood.
~ Philip K. Dick
She was shot dead, in cold blood, he said bitterly. I could see we were in for a long night. I got out my cigarettes.
~ Philip Kerr
That little ritual you invented, the stranger said as Christ broke the bread, has been a great success. Who would have thought that inviting Jews to eat flesh and drink blood would be so popular?
~ Unknown
I heard a baby cry. And this blood-splattered thing was put in my arms. My child. And, at that moment, it was like a gigantic plug appeared and - POW! - I was plugged into humanity in a way I'd never been before. Never could be. I was part of all mothers and all births from the beginning of time. I was a woman in a mud hut in Africa, in an igloo in the Arctic, a wigwam in America, a cave, a skyscraper, a spaceship. I was part of a flow and that flow was blood -
~ Philip Ridley
Ma, you want to see physical violence done to the Jews of Newark, go to the office of the plastic surgeon where the girls get their noses fixed. That's where the Jewish blood flows in Essex County, that's where the blow is delivered—with a mallet! To their bones—and to their pride!
~ Philip Roth
Nadir we, youth born, axe wielders, blood letters, victors still.
~ David Gemmell
Tell me, what are the Cheiam? We are the drinkers of blood, the sons of Joachim. We worship only one god: Shalli, the spirit of death. How many of you are there? One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind us.
~ David Gemmell
You are of the blood, Arvan. It will carry you through, he said Words! Just words. Blood was merely dark liquid — it carried no secrets, no mysteries. Courage was a thing of the soul and not a gift that a man could bestow on his sons
~ David Gemmell
Artemis does not accept the blood of women. Artemis will accept my blood.
~ David Gemmell
Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.
~ David Malouf