Top 91 Quotes About Noose
#2. Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
Jean Toomer
#3. 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
#4. The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#5. When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.
Robert Jordan
#6. Their love was so forbidden that their very touch could wrap a hangman's noose around them.
Victoria Sue
#7. It seemed to him that if the wrong man stepped into the marriage-loop with a woman, it was a noose instead of a ring.
Stephen King
#8. I tried to think what I had loved knives for, but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the centre of empty air.
Sylvia Plath
#9. Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
Carl Jung
#10. Trying to attack Hegel's ideas from the inside is like trying to loosen the hangman's rope by tugging at the noose.
Nigel Hems
#11. But I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again
Mumford & Sons
#12. Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.
Kim Jong Il
#13. This is what romance gets you
a noose around your neck and a crazy woman with two guns somewhere behind you.
Stephen King
#14. Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.
David Mitchell
#15. As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
John Trumbull
#16. - Most distinguished voyager, what was your eon like?
- Comic. Terror is forgotten.
Only the ridiculous is remembered by posterity.
Death from a wound, from a noose, from starvation
Is one death, but folly is uncounted and new every year.
Czeslaw Milosz
#17. Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?
Panashe Chigumadzi
#18. We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
#19. Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.
Elizabeth Lesser
#20. Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
Brent Weeks
#22. 'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.'
Sara Bell
#24. Sometimes, it is necessary for me to step back from my emotions and my life. I need to be the outsider looking in, sitting in the objective chair, as a witness. As opposed to being so entangled in my feelings, that they become a noose around my neck.
Jaeda DeWalt
#25. If the thirsty stag runs to the brook, it's only because he isn't aware of the cruel bow ... If the unicorn runs to its chaste nest, it's only because he doesn't see the noose prepared for him.
Deborah Harkness
#26. ...a totally dried noose for one is to another an integrated text adept at the cards that ruin whimsy...
Peter Ganick
#27. They've been promised a full stomach for their success, a noose for their failure...
Holly Bodger
#28. You ever think about the noose?'
'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.
Stacey Lee
#29. It was how mothers carried on, after all, with a glint in the eye that implied a sure clairvoyance and also that it was your turn to talk. This was the velvet rope mothers offered: enough silence to make a noose with. Mary
Chris Cleave
#30. Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns.
Rebecca Solnit
#31. 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
#32. I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower ... There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.
Cesar Chavez
#34. Each one
From one's little noose
Cranes out
Yells and shouts
Groans aloud
And grows stout
And the noose tightens
Leaving no way to creap out
Till at the end
Swollen
Spent out
Becomes silent.
I am also having my turn among all.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#35. A noose around the neck was still a noose even if it was encrusted with diamonds.
Salla Simukka
#36. 120. My mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung like a bird, in the center of empty air.
Sylvia Plath
#37. 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
#38. If you Ever say Anything about fairies knitting for two gay men again, I will fire you, Then I will knit you a noose, do you hear me?
Craw outburst at Jeremy's comment.
Amy Lane
#39. 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
#40. Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you" (1 Pet. 5:7). (The German word for worry means "to strangle." The Greek word means "to divide the mind." Both are accurate. Worry is a noose on the neck and a distraction of the mind, neither of which is befitting for joy.)
Max Lucado
#41. A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.
Ayn Rand
#42. There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
Bobby Bowden
#43. But tell me, I beseech you, what man is that would submit his neck to the noose of wedlock, if, as wise men should, he did but first truly weigh the inconvenience of the thing? Or
Erasmus
#44. The noose around a man's neck is tighter than that of his fists
Aaron Ozee
#45. One Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
Aristotle.
#46. I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.
Victoria Lamb
#47. and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground. From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time. The noose was straight from the textbook with thirteen
John Grisham
#48. A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Hortense Calisher
#50. Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
Michael Gove
#51. The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
Khaled Hosseini
#52. She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.
Catherynne M Valente
#53. Dorothea is a Grey," he pointed out. "Any member of her family would pause on the gallows to exchange witty banter with the hangman before graciously putting the noose about his neck with his own hands.
Diana Gabaldon
#54. The morning drizzle tightened the District's notorious braided-knot commute into a noose of traffic. - Scott Drayco
B.V. Lawson
#55. The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face
Neal Shusterman
#56. Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.
Madonna Ciccone
#57. You are provided with hands, but you decide how to employ them. Some use their hands to provide a lover's caress, chisel a sculpture, plant seeds; others use their hands to tighten a noose, pull a gun trigger, turn a prison key on innocent souls.
Joshua Emmet
#58. The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.
Elena Ferrante
#60. You will find that we simply provided the noose. You built the gallows, mounted the steps, put your neck in the rope, and jumped.
Thomm Quackenbush
#61. Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.
A.E. Samaan
#62. I am Calumny Spinks.
Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose.
It has swung there in the faintest of breezes, waiting for me, all my life.
Piers Alexander
#63. He didn't know if he was more furious with his brother, for knowing precisely how to loop the wire around his neck, or with himself, for his inability to duck out of the noose.
Maggie Stiefvater
#64. King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your purse. I was with him for six years. You put your head in a noose when you sign with Don King.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#65. Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.
Billy Corgan
#66. Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.
Carew Papritz
#67. Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.
Tim Wu
#68. So if the ties that bind ever do come loose
Tie them in a knot like a hangman's noose
Cause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hell
Before I'll see you with someone else.
The Band Perry
#69. Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.
Robert Charles Wilson
#70. A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it - it keeps him upright.
Robert A. Heinlein
#71. Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.
Nenia Campbell
#72. When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.
Paul Merton
#73. Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?
Joyce Carol Oates
#74. 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
#75. I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.
William Wallace
#76. But I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as a noose .
Nina Sankovitch
#77. The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose. Any break from routine may herald for them unbearable news.
Maya Angelou
#78. Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.
Louis L'Amour
#79. If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee
#80. The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.
Isaac Asimov
#81. Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
Caitlin Thomas
#82. Put your hope in the right thing, and it would be a lifeline. Put your hope in the wrong thing, and it would be a noose.
Gena Showalter
#83. Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the noose around the situation until you are running out of options and then really have no idea what to do.
Oren Peli
#84. I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman's noose.
Fennel Hudson
#85. Is it that the women are to blame; or is it the artificial system of things, under which the normal sex-impulses are turned into devilish domestic gins and springes to noose and hold back those who want to progress?
Thomas Hardy
#86. If you're so bored, learn to knit. I'm not that good of a hobby."
"If I ever learn to knit, the first thing I'll make is a noose to hang myself with.
Eva Morgan
#87. Her eyes bulged as the noose slowly choked the life out of her. Yet still they burned into his.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#88. 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
#89. The genius of the occupation, I came to see, is that the noose is tightened in such infinitesimal increments that the movement is virtually invisible to the rest of the world.
Chivvis Moore
#90. Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.
A.E. Samaan
#91. Those who escaped the noose settled here, at the very bottom, the absolute edge of peculiar society. Exiled from the outcasts of outcasts
Ransom Riggs
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