"The rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And did its best to vex the lake:I listened with heart fit to break.When glided in Porphyria; straightS..."
- Robert Browning
"To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle."
- Crystal Woods
"People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry."
- Anthony Liccione
"Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy--ah, they know only too well that ..."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"He bit back a weary sigh and tried to remember strangling her would solve squat."
- Kelly Moran