Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins."
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Veins
121 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves."
Saul Williams
Poet, Actor, Musician
"I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons"
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."
Andrew Williams
Athlete
"If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty."
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"Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name."
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"The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love."
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"What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter."
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"It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey."
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"For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble."
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"I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses."
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"he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins."
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"Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins."
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"I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises."
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"We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people."
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"Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido."
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"Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile."
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"I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones."
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"Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers."
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"I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude."
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"how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling"
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"Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein."
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"You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck."
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"He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins."
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"Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink."
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