Rope Quotes

396 Rope quotes by 326 unique authors

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes… — Elizabeth Smart
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates… — Aimee Bender
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.… — Rudyard Kipling
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. — Ayn Rand
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the… — Robin McKinley
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to… — Franz Kafka
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and… — Virginia Woolf
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends. — Ayn Rand
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we… — Jack Spicer
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating… — Billy Collins
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the… — Mary Oliver
I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it. — Sophie Scholl
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in… — Harry S. Truman
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's… — Christopher Paolini
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She… — Jeanette Winterson
It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back… — Jodi Picoult
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation… — Ian Mcewan
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he… — Elizabeth Strout

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