Quotes About Strangling

#1. The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. So. Ever get the urge to drown anyone?' Ariadne asked.
'No!' Andy replied, horrified.
'Shes just messing with you,' Helen assured her. Her face dropped. 'Seriously, though. What's your stance on strangling?'
'You mean apart from wanting to strangle both of you right now?

Josephine Angelini

#3. The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

Raymond Chandler

#4. She was not taking up that subject with Ted. Not when she'd spent part of the time fighting a fantasy about hitting the sheets and the other part thinking about strangling him with them.

HelenKay Dimon

#5. He had his head in hand hands, and his tie looked like it had been put on by an enemy, and was strangling him.

Caitlin Moran

#6. Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

Richie Norton

#8. He showed his love and determination by burning her BMW and strangling her cat, then

David Morrell

#9. I, Larry Vail, do hereby confess
To murdering Merry in her little dress.
To strangling and raping and making a mess.
To all of these charges the answer is yes.

Rosalyn Drexler

#10. Dance after dance after dance, until sweat was running down my back as I worked to keep up, keep that smile on my face, to remember to laugh when my hands were within strangling distance from his throat.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Dennis Nilsen

#12. Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?" she asked.
Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son."
"So have we all from time to time," Eddis said seriously.

Megan Whalen Turner

#13. What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.

Karleen Koen

#14. He bit back a weary sigh and tried to remember strangling her would solve squat.

Kelly Moran

#15. I thought for sure you were about to ravish her. I've read a lot of books, and that was just like a scene that ends with the hero ravishing the maiden."
"I was closer to strangling her."
The little old lady chuckles in a knowing kind of way. "That's a different kind of book, sonny.

Emma Chase

#16. There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Helen Rowland

#17. And according to her dagger, that crazy teddy-bear-strangling kid, Octavian, was whipping the Romans into a war frenzy.

Rick Riordan

#18. Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"

John Ross Macduff

#19. Remember that when he's slaughtering you. It's important that the guy strangling the life out of you is drop-dead gorgeous.

Larissa Ione

#20. I have often dreamed of strangling my Creator.

Jan Siegel

#21. But I do love the world, I whispered to the empty room. I love its small ones, the things beaten in the strangling surf the singing bird which falls and is not seen again, the lost ones, the failures of the world.

Loren Eiseley

#22. Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.

Seth Green

#23. Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

Meg Whitman

#24. It's always best to avoid strangling the person you're on a date with. No matter how crazy he makes you.

Lisa Papademetriou

#25. Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

Quincy Jones

#26. Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

William Zinsser

#27. Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone,

Lauren Kate

#28. My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.

Carl Barron

#29. Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14

Richard Blackaby

#30. (1990) A serial killer is strangling

This Fangirl

#31. I can even see that little flourish he often does with his hand. The one that looks like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, only the rabbit is your dignity and the hat is him slowly strangling it to death in front of you. Certainly

Charlotte Stein

#32. It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

Tom Waits

#33. The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

John Gregory Dunne

#34. She got in, as she had persuaded Jerott Blyth to bring her half across France, by force of logic, a kind of flat-chested innocence and the doggedness of a flower-pecker attacking a strangling fig.

Dorothy Dunnett

#35. The Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#36. I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time.

H.P. Lovecraft

#37. This guy is a total fucking prick. I know I've said that before. Still. I would have taken great pleasure in strangling him in that moment, if that was something I was capable of. And I'm not even that violent.

Jennifer Reinfried

#38. Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

Douglas Adams

#39. And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face ... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life wound this Earth, crucify its soul. Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly. We could be God's glow ... Heal the world.

Michael Jackson

#40. He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks.

Jim Butcher

#41. How could I not be in love with a man who folded something after strangling me with it?

Nicole Castle

#42. God, she was two seconds from jumping on his back like a monkey and strangling him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#43. My apprenticeship is more important than strangling Master Byron. I repeated the motto over and over again. If I said it enough times it would become true, or so I hoped.

Rachel E. Carter

#44. My head cleared, and suddenly I had heart to fight again, to ignore pain and damage, to fight! I swear I saw myself, face purpled from strangling, the rich blood streaming and soaking and the smell so maddening.

Robin Hobb

#45. Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#46. Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There

Larry Niven

#47. Gonna be a real frog-strangling turd-floater.

Charles Martin

#48. Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Brandon Sanderson

#49. I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

John Darnielle

#50. Her blood-curdling snoring, with its gargling and squawking and its terrifying pauses is like the sound the devil might make if he were alternately relishing and strangling on a pound of human flesh.

Bailey White

#51. The fact that my dick's in it's happy place is probably saving your life. Trust me when I say I'm seriously considerin' strangling you, Sophie. Thinking about fuckin' you balances that out.

Joanna Wylde

#52. Yeah, this was pretty much one of those moments when she felt like strangling both of them. Did you guys trip over the dead horse? Please, stop beating it.

Cherrie Lynn

#53. OUR SPECIES has always been itching for a fight. Some say we started strangling each other with our fish fins as soon as we crawled out of the primordial ooze.

John O'Bryan

#54. You have threads of life blowing around, possibly even strangling you - threads that are meant to bind together and become your unique, God-given contribution to a world in great need.

Jennie Allen

#55. Caring was all about surrender, in the end. The opposite of control. The difference between strangling someone and embracing them.

Cara McKenna

#56. If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.

Joe Strummer

#57. Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

Martin O'Neill

#58. Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Matt Taibbi

#59. Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?

Kenneth Patchen

#60. All in all, I'd say,
the world is strangling.
And I, in my bed each night,
listen to my twenty shoes
converse about it.
And the moon,
under its dark hood,
falls out of the sky each night,
with its hungry red mouth
to suck at my scars.

Anne Sexton

#61. Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it's his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can't strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can't handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.

Stephen Richards

#62. Just checking you're living and breathing," Kieran said. "Maybe we should discuss ways to keep you that way because right now I feel like strangling you. You got me into a lot of trouble with my brother.

Jayde Scott

#63. Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Rachel Corrie

#64. I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.

Rick Perry

#65. Can you imagine strangling someone for 10 minutes?

L.T. Vargus

#66. You couldn't plan a picnic without strangling yourself with the cloth.

Frances Hardinge

#67. Syn let out a tired breath. I'd never hit you, Cruel. I only fantasize about strangling you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#68. I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

Bob Dylan

#69. It was, come to think of it, the first time anyone had thought to try strangling him. Manuel found it to be disappointingly effective.

Nathan Crowder

#70. She is an animal. Servile as a dog. And yet if he is careful to make no demands, to leave the air between them open, another version of the windup girl emerges. As precious and rare as a living bo tree. Her soul, emerging from within the strangling strands of her engineered DNA.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#71. Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.

Jasmine Warga

#72. But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain.

Christopher Nolan

#73. Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#74. Oh, I was two seconds from jumping on his back and strangling him from behind ... with love, of course.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#75. This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

Anais Nin

#76. Quinn: "Shiiiiiiit. I nearly killed him."
Blay: "Well, arguably you were being gallant."

referring to strangling Saxton for "cheating" on Blay.

Black Dagger Brotherhood #11 Lover at Last

J.R. Ward

#77. I considered, quite seriously, strangling her to death while I fucked her and then throwing myself in front of the 8:11 bus. The idea was not without its logic and appeal. But there were the bus driver's feelings to consider ...

Jonathan Franzen