#strangle

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#glad #i #invincible #respectability #shall

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#carry #done #far #favors #gratitude

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#forget #laugh #life #me #night

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#because #breeding #early #easy #easy-going

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#drowning #feel #greatest #him #his

I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when I got there. Well, most of them were dead. The last few I had to strangle so I could enjoy some solitude. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bodies #body #death #enjoy #joy

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#backpack #being #bring #day #down

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib. ↗

— Brit Hume

#clinton #clinton administration #could #crib #felt

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#many #strangled #truth #truth is

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. ↗

— Megan Fox

#could #girl #hands #i #makes