Bleeding Quotes - Page 2

• Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.

  Sylvia Plath

  Weak, Let Me

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.124, Anchor

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• Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Armenians, Armenian Genocide

  "Turkey must end its 100 years of genocide denial" by Peter Balakian, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2015.

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• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

  James Woods

  Attitude, Snow, Hollywood

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• There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

  Georges Duhamel

  Battle, Fields, Towns

  Georges Duhamel (2008). “The New Book of Martyrs”

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• Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

  Art Linkletter

  Funny, Children, Parenting

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• Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Lying, Laughing, Rose

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1343, Delphi Classics

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• I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Country, Fall

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• I know the action in the street is excitin'
  But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’
  I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Jesus, Reading, Writing

  "Song: 'My Shot'". September 25, 2015.

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• Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

  Devendra Banhart

  Grieving, Leaving, Crow

  "Song: 'Cripple Crow' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Break Off, Looks, Red

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• The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

  B. B. King

  Blood

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• the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.

  Natalie Kusz

  Fall, Self, Dying

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• You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sex, Pain, Memories

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• It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

  David Foster

  Writing, Looks, Pieces

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• I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Healing, Thinking, Illumination

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• I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

  Ian Hart

  Hate, Doors, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

  Tori Amos

  Trying, Knees, Violence

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• Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Rocks, People, Nine

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• My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Two, Google

  "Remarks by the President at a DNC Dinner in Palo Alto, California". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 21, 2010.

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• Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Needs, Facts, Ends

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• these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin

  Patrick Jones

  Skins, Self Injury, Scream

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• Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

  Ana Monnar

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

  Ana Monnar (2005). “Relax: New and Selected Poems”, p.112, Author House

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• And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

  Rick Mercer

  Support, Canada, Assuming

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• With aching hands and bleeding feet
  We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
  We bear the burden and the heat
  Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
  Not till the hours of light return
  All we have built do we discern.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Hands

  'Parting' (1852) l. 19

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• There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

  Bill Stone

  Country, Politics, Idiot

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