Throat Quotes - Page 10

• Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Despair, Relax, Steel

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Son, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.92, Gibbs Smith

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• Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

  Ai Weiwei

  "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry". Documentary, 2012.

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• A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden
  "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

  Robert Frost

  Believe, Sound, Poet

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• Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.

  Nick Cave

  Imagination, Needs, Able

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• I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

  Robert Plant

  Spring, Voice, Sound

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.

  Ayrton Senna

  Apology, Men, Thinking

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• Some words live in my throat
  breeding like adders. Others know sun
  seeking like gypsies over my tongue
  to explode through my lips

  Audre Lorde

  Tongue, Sun, Lips

  Audre Lorde (1968). “The first cities”

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• Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
  Green as a bough of yew the beard;
  He bent his head, and so I smote

  Yvor Winters

  Yew, Green, Beard

  Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

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• If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

  Richard Branson

  Flower, Jumping, People

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Father, Men, Forever

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Flower, Fall

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• I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

  Fiona Apple

  Sweet, Crazy, Fighting

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• Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

  William Golding

  Cutting, Pigs, Piggy

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.82, Hamilton Books

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• Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Monsters, Thanks, Admiration

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.

  Sloane Crosley

  Hey, Answers, Refreshing

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.120, Portobello Books

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• I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Dad, Flower, Keys

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?" He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass." Why?" He turned his head and looked at me. "Because." Because why?" Because I just do.

  Sarah Dessen

  Said, Heard, Breaths

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• I need to check in with Seth before I--" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on her throat--"give in to my unconscionable desire to put my hands on you properly.

  Melissa Marr

  Hands, Giving, Desire

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• Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.

  Toni Morrison

  Stars, Taken, Cutting

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• It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Cutting, Events

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.144, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Blood, Leaving, Despair

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• At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."

  Suetonius

  Laughter, Eye, Cutting

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