Top 61 Ink Blood Quotes
#1. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.
Anthony Liccione
#2. Treaties are often written in paper and ink. War, is carved by stone in blood.
B.H.
#3. The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood.
Ronnell D. Porter
#4. I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist.
O'Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)
O. Henry
#5. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Nazr Mohammed
#6. Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F.H. Bradley
#7. And then they were inside, and out of the wind, and surrounded by comforting walls and walls of books. The rich, delightful smell of old paper, leather and ink permeated the place, washing away the pettier odours of blood and oil and smog.
Genevieve Cogman
#8. If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.
Max Lucado
#9. Blood, Herr Reiss, can never be eradicated like ink.
Philip K. Dick
#10. from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN
If you put a twizzler in your ear it looks like your ear is vomiting blood.
Sam Pink
#11. CLEOPATRA: My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.
William Shakespeare
#12. I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
John Thune
#14. All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.
Aporva Kala
#15. Prophet (PBUH) considered the ink of a scholar to be holier than the blood of a martyr.
Imran Khan
#16. The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or
John Calvin
#17. Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
Tahir Shah
#18. We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
Albert Camus
#19. Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips
from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and it
throbs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#20. The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.
Julius Evola
#21. The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
Anonymous
#23. Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.
Terry Teachout
#24. So?" Mac says.
I shrug.
"Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?"
"It was nice, I guess."
"You guess?" Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. "Tough crowd."
"Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.
Ashley Mansour
#25. I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
George R R Martin
#26. Prophecy fulfilled:
Peter's life is a quill and the ink is his blood.
Jonah Books
#27. Far better to be in places where words do what you want them to and where blood doesn't smell because it's set down in ink on the page; history
Rafael Chirbes
#28. I bleed myself to be your drink:
Is not the blood of poets - ink?
William Soutar
#29. It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.
James A. Owen
#30. The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
Anthony Liccione
#31. We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don't talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.
Ashley Mansour
#32. Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.
Allison Mackie
#33. Islamic history is written in two types of ink. Black for the ink of the scholars and red for the blood of the martyrs!
Me
#35. When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink when they should be signed in blood.
Suzanne Hayes
#37. International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
Eric Ambler
#38. Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream
Sylvia Plath
#39. Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
John Milton
#40. A match as a pen
Blood on the floor as ink
The forgotten gauze cover as paper
But what should I write?
I might just manage my address
This ink is strange; it clots
I write you from a prison
in Greece
Alexanderos Panagoulis
#41. The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. Eliot
#42. Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.
Edward A. Pollard
#43. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
Patrick Rothfuss
#44. My earlier metaphor had been wrong, I discovered. The splash of ink from the pen dropping onto the page looked nothing like a spray of blood at all.
Lyndsay Faye
#45. A librarian remembers the particular scent of glue and dust, and if we're so lucky - and I was - the smell of parchment, a quiet tanginess, softer than wood pulp or cotton rag. We would bury ourselves in books until flesh and paper became one and ink and blood at last ran together.
Erika Swyler
#46. War is a difficult time for everybody - for soldiers on the front and for the people on the road. War takes away from us everything that we know, as we know it. It gives us a blank slate to re-write our lives and for ink it gives us blood.
Preeti Bhonsle
#47. How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.
Bertha Von Suttner
#48. Now, please, if I could direct your attention to the tip of this pen. Notice that it does not look like a normal pen. It is in fact a tooth of the Devil! And it will be injecting into your skin, not ink, but the blood of a demon!
William Pauley III
#49. If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you
Henry Rollins
#50. You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.
Rachel Caine
#51. He hurled another vast pot of unstable thaumaturgic compound at the militia. It fell short, but burst with such violence that it splashed onto and over the shields, mixing with the distillate and sending two officers screaming to the floor as their skin became parchment and their blood ink.
China Mieville
#52. The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
Julius Evola
#53. Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.
Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can't waste it.
Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.
Denis Johnson
#54. Whether this blood was daemon, human, or something else, it was still only blood, and blood was only the ink of life.
Gabrielle Harbowy
#55. Don't expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.
Leslie Gordon Barnard
#56. When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.
Molly Crabapple
#57. Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.
Lu Xun
#58. He who leaves his home in search of knowledge walks in the path of God ... and the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr;
Will Durant
#59. Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#60. All words are written in the same ink,
'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same,
and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'
all over the page, the paper would not be stained
now would I bleed.
Philippe Jaccottet
#61. The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.
Lemony Snicket
