Giving Blood Quotes:

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

- Anneli Rufus

source: "The joys of solitude" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

topic: Tired, Mean, Thinking, Socializing, Misanthrope

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness, Give It All You Got, Giving Love

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Blood, Giving, Hustle, Giving Blood

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Family, Blood, Giving, Giving Blood

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

- Joe Biden

topic: Home, Opportunity, Blood, World Trade Center, Pentagon

I say we spend some money, clean up some junkies and make them all go work for the Red Cross. You ever give blood to the Red Cross? Little paper hatted trainee kid, just sticking you full of holes. Golly, jeez, this is way harder than the deep fryer, how does this work? You get an ex-junkie in there, bap-bap, he's gonna find a vein. You're in, you're out, you got sugar cookie and you're happy!

- Christopher Titus

source: "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

topic: Kids, Blood, Giving, Red Cross, Giving Blood

If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

- Andy Weir

source: "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.

topic: Blood, Earthquakes, Cities, Martians, Giving Blood

When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.

- Anne Sexton

source: Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Beautiful, Christmas, God, Giving Blood

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

- Pete Townshend

topic: Blood, Giving, May, Giving Blood

I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.

- Les Dawson

topic: Blood, Giving, Wife, Giving Blood

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

- Sanjeev Bhaskar

topic: Blood, Giving, Cash, Giving Blood