“You shall never want rope enough.”

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“1657. Give him but Rope enough, and he'll hang himself.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“I was seized with a guilt that I knew would never leave me, and I knew I didn't deserve to be free of it. I hadn't quite reached the end of my rope, but I was close enough.”

Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

“I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought.”

Adunis (1930) Essayist, poet