Top 68 If It Bleeds Quotes
#2. Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Frederick Buechner
#3. The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
Peter Diamandis
#4. There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
Armstrong Williams
#5. We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.
Jason Silva
#6. It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats.
Juhani Aho
#7. Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
Rami Malek
#8. Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'
John Prendergast
#9. Irritation instigates emotion, and emotion opens the door for change. Not at first - first comes anger. But anger eventually bleeds into reflection, and reflection breeds acceptance. And acceptance - that's what leads to change.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#10. At four in the afternoon the old moon bleeds radiance into the grey sky.
Nadine Gordimer
#11. I've read your summary."
"And?"
"It's not incompetent."
Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?
Ilona Andrews
#12. Got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight
Bruce Cockburn
#13. Jack and Jill came to the hill
on a grave and somber mission
you've made them mad
the time's so bad
to be a politician"
"Jack and Jill came to hill
to do some deadly deeds
they weren't far wrong
to judge how long
a bleeding liberal bleeds.
James Patterson
#14. When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
#15. Blood stopped binding us the instant he came at my throat. If this thing is stalking me because of him, then I'm more than ready to slash his throat and laugh while he bleeds to death at my feet. Give me the knife and stand back. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them. Unless we're very lucky, the world teaches us to laugh more quietly, more coyly.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#17. I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.
Hugo Wolf
#18. Hi, Your Majesty, we drugged your love muffin and then let her walk out into the dark, in the snow. Her apartment is destroyed and we're not sure where she is ...
Ilona Andrews
#19. Even if my throat bleeds from singing and my body breaks from dancing,I will never give up on stage.Under the circumstances where you cannot enjoy yourself whole-heartedly.Just scream and shout 'till your throat hurts
Jaejoong
#20. Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off."
Did he expect anything different? "Hey, I didn't kick or punch you in the throat. I consider this progress. And you haven't choked me again, which is some sort of record for you ...
Ilona Andrews
#21. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
Herman Melville
#22. My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#23. I'll call you," he repeated.
"If you call me, I won't pick up the phone."
"You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.
Ilona Andrews
#24. Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
Tahereh Mafi
#25. He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
#26. No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
Leslie Jamison
#28. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#29. My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.
Adrian Grenier
#31. Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.
Stephen Marley
#32. The thing about prayer is it always feels like an act of faith - it forms some fragile new chamber in your heart, something empty and vulnerable that bleeds loneliness if God never answers you.
Kelly Loy Gilbert
#33. It's a party house."
"I hope for your sake it's a very tame party." If he brought me to some sort of sex orgy, he would fly right through one of those pretty windows, headfirst.
Ilona Andrews
#34. I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco
#35. If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.
Roger McGough
#36. I think now that if all eight billion of us had just shut off the lights and gone to bed that night and left it alone we'd have all slept and the chalice would have passed us by. But let's be real. Whoever leaves anything alone? Life's a scab, and it's our nature to pick at it until it bleeds.
Adrian Barnes
#37. Every beautiful thing cracks and shatters and collapses and crumples and bleeds. If not now, it will eventually.
Han Yujoo
#38. He glued the chair to my ass."
Silence.
"Is it still ... attached?"
"I can't get it off.
Ilona Andrews
#39. Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
Ilona Andrews
#40. A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.
Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus
#41. The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red
Alan Brazil
#42. Dear rabbis, I'm so sorry, I nuked your circle dude. Here is his head as a souvenir. Yeah, that would fly.
Ilona Andrews
#43. Finally, thank you very much to Jeaniene Frost and Jill Myles. This book does have sex in it. Please don't hit me anymore."
~Ilona Andrews in the Acknowledgements section of Magic Bleeds
Ilona Andrews
#44. Something inside me bleeds for her. It's a nasty cut in the heart, a slow, deadly leak.
Karina Halle
#45. Out there on the field, the game is everything. It builds you up, breaks you down, and it bleeds you dry. But I love it. It's the only place I'm free. - Brody Madden
Kate McCarthy
#46. I paused with the pen in my hand. "He burst into flames?"
"He became engulfed in fire."
"Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at any point yell, 'It's clobbering time'?
Ilona Andrews
#47. Man, Fury was right. You should never trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die. I should have listened to you. You told me Petra was a three-wolf-humping bitch, but did I listen? (Fang)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#48. I do not believe the loss of a child is something one ever overcomes. One puts on the faces one needs, but inside, one bleeds and bleeds.
Elizabeth Berg
#49. So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
Countee Cullen
#50. France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.
Victor Hugo
#51. Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.
Meghan Lamb
#52. How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's another man's turn!
Irene Nemirovsky
#53. Want to know what it feels like when your soul bleeds? Write a novel.
Carl Henegan
#54. I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.
Ilona Andrews
#55. Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.
Tony Kushner
#56. She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.
Markus Zusak
#57. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
Immortal Technique
#59. Opening your heart only gives people the permission to break it. And once it breaks, it bleeds.
Brooke Cumberland
#60. The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels"
"It's me," Curran said. "I - "
I hung up.
Ilona Andrews
#61. If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.
Tyler Blackburn
#62. Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
Dean Koontz
#64. The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains.
Robert Michael Pyle
#65. The quill has pricked my soul and each word bleeds onto the parchment of my life. My freedom is in my words, therefore, I write.
Mona Bethke
#66. And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order." I kept my voice mild. "I suppose I won't be needing my job, my house, or my clothes anymore."
"I didn't say that. Although let me get back to you on the clothes. It's still under consideration.
Ilona Andrews
#67. When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, ... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift ... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#68. The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.
Caroline Kettlewell
