Rope Quotes

396 Rope quotes by 326 unique authors

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see… — Victor Hugo
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to… — Jules Verne
The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join.… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand — Tom Waits
Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded… — Maxine Hong Kingston
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes… — Bob Dylan
When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at… — Ilona Andrews
A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot. — Justine Larbalestier
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One… — Karen Russell
I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile. — Charles M. Schulz
So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare… — Jim Butcher
Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint — Brent Weeks
It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater
...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those… — Cecelia Ahern
Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound… — Lauren Oliver
Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one… — Jeffrey Eugenides
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is… — C.S. Lewis
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you… — Jeanette Winterson
neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of… — Tadeusz Borowski
The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it,… — Markus Zusak
THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into… — Jack Gilbert
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know… — Primo Levi
I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that… — Diana Gabaldon
When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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