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Quotes About Blood

To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas. If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work." ? Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems
~ Dylan Thomas
To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.
~ Dylan Thomas
People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.
~ E. Lockhart
IN EUROPE, I vomited into small buckets and brushed my teeth repeatedly with chalky British toothpaste. I lay prone on the bathroom floors of several museums, feeling the cold tile underneath my cheek as my brain liquefied and seeped out my ear, bubbling. Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies.
~ E. Lockhart
Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, then from my eyes, my ears, my mouth. It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
~ E. Lockhart
She had done the deed with credible efficiency. With style, even. She had committed murder with an effing kitty-cat statue in a beautiful state park over a massive and scenic ravine. There had not been a single witness. She had left no blood anywhere.
~ E. Lockhart
When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.
~ E. Lockhart
Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies.
~ E. Lockhart
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ E.E. Cummings
A negação nunca sai de um raciocínio mas sim de algo obscuro e antigo. Os argumentos vêm depois, para a justificar e apoiar. Todo o não surge do sangue.
~ E.M. Cioran
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
~ E.M. Forster
Glory always has a price, and that cost is almost always paid in copiously spilled blood.
~ Ed Greenwood
The feathers in the one pillow on the bed were duck down. The feather found, therefore, had not come from the pillow. It was found stuck to a smear of blood, so chances were it was left by the killer and not left by someone who'd been in the room previous to the killer. If the killer, therefore, had a pigeon feather stuck to his clothes, chances were he was a pigeon fancier. All the cops had to do was track down every pigeon fancier in the city. That job was for the birds.
~ Ed McBain
This one's pretty good too," Crashpad said, holding up a boxed set. "These brothers hunt monsters and they drive around the country in this Impala and the tall one has demon blood but he—
~ Eden Robinson
We hear the ocean in our dreams,' " Neeka said, " 'our cages of blood and bone sing her songs. Exiled on shore, our tongues caress the lost words we no longer understand, her language of salt and surging.'
~ Eden Robinson
What he said was, they're finding so many new groups and sub-groups that in ten or twenty years you'll be able to identify a chap straight away just by his blood, like as if it was his fingerprints.
~ Edmund Crispin
For all that fair is, is by nature good;That is a sign to know the gentle blood.
~ Edmund Spenser
Like all good cowboys dead and alive on fighting and grit and blood they thrive with a little strong whisky to keep hope alive.
~ Edward Abbey
For the first time in more than thirty years, Nicholas wanted the company of his blood—not the amicable converse of friendship, not the parley of a lover, but the marrow-talk of kin and consanguinity
~ Edward Docx
Hic est enim calix Sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti: mysterium fidei: qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum [For this is the chalice of My Blood, of the new and eternal covenant; the mystery of faith; which shall be shed for you and for many unto the forgiveness of sins].
~ Anonymous
A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.
~ Anonymous
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
~ Anonymous
Recite: In the name of thy Lord who created,Created Man of a blood clot.Recite: And thy Lord is the mostGenerous, who taught by the Pen,Taught Man that he knew not.
~ Anonymous
[Pilate] took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
~ Anonymous