#strangle

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

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#came #commentaries #concept #dvd #i

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#creativeness #everything #remove #scientific #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

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#had #hands #his #kings #priest

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#house #leadership #now #party #republican

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth. ↗

— Philip Kearny

#horrible #strangles #war #youth

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. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bodies #body #death #enjoy #joy