“A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.”

“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”

Elena Ferrante book The Days of Abandonment

“A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.”

Hortense Calisher (1911–2009) American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist

“The Endgame: "The object of this game is to dare to fall with a noose around your neck from a place sufficiently off the ground such that a fall will hang you. The object of the game is to punish those who have caused great unhappiness by their selfish actions. This is the best game of all because the winner is also the loser and the judge's decision is always final."”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“As though there were a tie
And obligation to posterity.
We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse:
What has posterity done for us.
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?”

John Trumbull (poet) (1750–1831) American poet

“"Just what kind of noose are you offering to put round my neck, here? Is this treason?"
"Worse," Cazaril sighed. "Theology."”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

“Vietnam is the dead albatross around Johnson's neck that may pull him down.”

Thomas A. Bailey (1902–1983) American historian

“… with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched…”

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

“I'm telling you, they have their hands around the neck of the republic. They are much farther ahead, we're just figuring it out. They have their hands around the neck of this republic and they are about to snap it, if we don't wake up.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

“Plainly said, he was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn’t realize that once a noose is tied, it will fit one neck as easily as another.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind