Nooses Quotes

• Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Doubt

  Dorothy Parker, “Inventory”

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• A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

  Ayn Rand

  Rope, Ends, Leashes

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.850, Penguin

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• There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

  Bobby Bowden

  Nfl, Halos, Inches

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• The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

  Elena Ferrante

  Night, Circles, Necks

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.144, Penguin

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• He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving, Rope, Necks

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2007.

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• One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Peace, War

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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• The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Rope, Necks, Flood

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.302, A&C Black

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• Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Worry, Anxiety

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

  Brent Weeks

  Love Is, Rope, Dark Humor

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• Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Jealousy, Necks, Lifelong

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• Many a necklace becomes a noose.

  Paul Eldridge

  Necklaces

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• We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relationship, Men, Firsts

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• A nut is someone whose noose broke.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Nuts, Broke

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Depressing, Gun

  "Resume" l. 5 (1926)

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• Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Twenties, Three, Embodiment

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.712, Scholastic Inc.

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• Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

  Clinton D. McKinnon

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

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• Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Self, Relax, Ease

  "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

  Tim Wu

  Mind, Cash, Hangman

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Adrian frowned. 'Is that a noose?' 'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this. 'My mistake.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Ties, Trying

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

  Yann Martel

  Men, Ties, Careful

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Loyalty, Queens, Wall

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• Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Blessed, Offering, Iron

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.261, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

  Gina Barreca

  Fear, Safety, Circumstances

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• You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

  Bill Moyers

  Loyalty, Country, Passion

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