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Quotes About Noose

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
Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose.
~ Jarod Kintz
Gloria had never understood why you would want to wear an instrument of torture and death as an ornament. You may as well wear a noose or a guillotine. At least Tatiana's earrings were plain, no twin dying bodies of Christ writhing on them. Did the crucifixes ever put the clients off ? Jews, Muslims, atheists, vampires— how did they feel?
~ Kate Atkinson
The normal world tries to stifle emotion with the noose of its own deadness.
~ Alicia Suskin Ostriker
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
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
If you ever say anything about fairies knitting for two gay men again, I will fire you, then I'll knit you a noose, do you hear me?
~ Amy Lane
There are two positions available to us – either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
~ Jean Toomer
A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
~ Anonymous
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
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of NightHas flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight:And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caughtThe Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Don't know," we all said, but when we look in the mirror, see the history of our tribe in our eyes, taste failure in the tap water, and shake with old tears, we understand completely. Believe me, everything looks like a noose if you stare at it long enough.
~ Sherman Alexie
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
~ Walter Cronkite
Fool Me Twice I took a risk by reinvesting myself I took an even bigger one when I began to care But I tightened the knot of the noose around my neck When I began to Love you again You kicked the chair out from under me So I didn't even have to jump
~ Samantha King
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
~ Caitlin Thomas
I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened.
~ Alexa Vega
First love, first love," Sean murmured sadly, scratching his bubonic nose. "Who are we to intervene, eh? It will die of natural causes." "Natural causes!" She was thinking that the poor girl had been garroted. Her bright-red hair racing the tail of the noose down her spine. You could not survive your death, could you? It survived with you.
~ Karen Russell
The thread by which our fate hangs is wearing thin. Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. This is simply another façon de parler for what John called the "wrath of God." 735
~ C.G. Jung
Maledetti i vestiti eleganti! A chi sarà venuta in mente un'idiozia come quella di andare in giro con un cappio al collo quando ci si vuole vestire bene?»
~ Camilla Lackberg
'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, The Devil's Fire
The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face
~ Neal Shusterman
ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUST as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.
~ Neal Stephenson
I had no answers, just a never-ending list of questions that I scrawled out until my hand ached, knowing I was searching for a loophole that increasingly felt like a noose.
~ Gina Buonaguro