quotations about blood
Not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers of violence and bloodshed, knowing no other path.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
"A Witch Shall Be Born", Weird Tales, 1934
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
BENITO MUSSOLINI
attributed, Current History, 1922
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
GOD
Genesis 9:6
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
GOD
Numbers 35:33
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
EDMUND BURKE
letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777
My blood is liquid flame!
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Marmion
Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming.
RYAN MECUM
Zombie Haiku
Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Their Eyes Were Watching God
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink ye all of it. For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."
BIBLE
Matthew 26:27-8
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
CLIVE BARKER
Books of Blood
We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.
PAUL CHRISTOPHER
The Lucifer Gospel
Blood is thicker than water.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
The sprinkled blood is speaking
Forgiveness full and free;
Its wondrous power is breaking
Each bond of guilt for me.
FREDERICK WHITFIELD
"The Blood That Speaketh"
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE
"Seventh Dialogue", St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
All my offences that abroad you see,
Are errors of the blood, none of the mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Lover's Complaint
What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.
GOD
Genesis 4:10-12
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
ROBERT LOWRY
"Nothing But the Blood of Jesus"