No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. Wilhelm Dilthey
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows. Joanne Harris
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. Georges Bataille
I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever; At the bottom of my dream. Henry David Thoreau
Everyone [in western capitals] says to us ‘What's the alternative to Assad and why is the opposition not united?'. But it's not the revolution's fault that it's not united and we can't wait for unity while the river of blood flows. The alternative to Assad is the ballot box. Bashar al-Assad