BLOOD QUOTES II

quotations about blood

The first records of our young world were those of tears and blood; its last records will be those of tears and blood also.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Romance and Reality


In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

ABERJHANI

The River of Winged Dreams


Blood was flowing--in Bluebeard's house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.

ARTHUR RIMBAUD

Collected Poems


Besides, another motive power doth rise
Out of the heart, from whose pure blood do spring
The vital spirits, which, borne in arteries,
Continual motion to all parts do bring.

JOHN DAVIES

A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul


For naturally blood will aye of kind
Draw unto blood, where he may it find.

JOHN LYDGATE

Troy


There's no other safety, there's no other plea,
There's no other refuge whereunto to flee;
The blood, and that only, can safety insure:
The blood, and that only, can cleanse and make pure.

A.E.R.

Thoughts of Peace and Other Poems


But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides


Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams,
fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs
and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

PABLO NERUDA

The Month of March Returns with its Hidden Light


I'm a vampire, baby, suckin' blood from the earth. Well, I'm a vampire, babe, sell you twenty barrels worth. Good times are comin'.

NEIL YOUNG

"Vampire Blues"


Why should he live now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Sonnet LXVII


Human blood is all of a color.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia


You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you.

DANTE ALIGHIERI

Inferno


Bloodshed is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood.

PATRICK PEARSE

"The Coming Revolution", 1913


The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell


Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

BIBLE

Jeremiah 48:10


I am here a stranger to all feasts but those of blood.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Agamemnon


Blood is memory without language.

JOYCE CAROL OATES

I Locked My Door upon Myself


All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Selected Letters


What cost knows not our blood?

HORACE

Odes


The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

BIBLE

Psalms 58:10