“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.”— Yasser Arafat, voices.washingtonpost.com
“We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!”— Yasser Arafat, en.wikiquote.org
“Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.”— Yasser Arafat, en.wikiquote.org
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“Blood dripped down my forehead and blurred my vision. I swallowed hard as I wiped it out of my eyes and on to my tattered sweatshirt. Trying to control my breathing I focused on the dark alley head of me. I knew he was out there but I didn't know where.”— KellyAnneBlount, wattpad.com
“If your first time involves penetration, a little pain or pressure might be expected. That said, it should still be overall pleasurable — not painful. So if it hurts a lot, stop. This could be a signal that you need more foreplay or lubrication.”— Casey Gueren, buzzfeed.com
“It is possible to shoot a man in self-defense and still notice how his red blood decorates the snow.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“Does anyone know where we can buy one of those "100 Days Without A Workplace Accident" signs? Ours has a lot of dried blood on it.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility.”— Caroline Kettlewell, amazon.com
“He came inside you? Then he’s clearly fine with bodily excretions getting shared. There’s no reason for period blood to be any different.”— Ellen Scott, metro.co.uk
“Stay with the beer. Beer is continuous blood, a continuous lover.”— Charles Bukowski, books.google.com
“The red carpet, of course, is here to hide the rivers of blood that will eventually pour down from the cornucopia, when Donald Trump, flanked by his two eunuchs, takes the stage. By eunuchs I mean Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus, who clearly checked their balls at the door this election.’”— Stephen Colbert, salon.com
“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.com
“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“So fragile—the human body. Just one prick and it will draw blood. Just one bullet and the bleeding will never stop.”— Tiana Dalichov, amazon.com
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human b…”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com