“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”

“He comes, and his face is sad and mild,
With thorns his head is crowned;
There are great bleeding wounds in his feet,
And in each hand a wound.
How can I tell, who am a fool,
If this be Christ or no?
Those bleeding hands outstretched to me!
Those eyes that love me so!”

“Here sits the Unicorn;
The wounds in his side
Still bleed”

“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”

“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”

“Mean time the Queen wounded with deep desire,
Bleeds inward, and consumes in hidden Fire.”

“When I stand up from my writing desk, "John Banville", or "Benjamin Black" – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.”

“And a blade twitched into his heart, beginning the slow, massive bleeding he would never be able to stop, no matter what else he might accomplish. He was surprised and puzzled as he walked with that mortal wound in him, for it occurred to him that, although the wound would be the death of him, it would be the life of him too.”