“Guilt is a rope that wears thin.”

— Ayn Rand, book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982

Aaron Weiss

Every Thought a Thought of You.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.”

John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician

"The Wise Years", The Moon Endureth (1912)

“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

Page 145
2000s, (2008)

“Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat.”

Joanne Woodward (1930) Actress, producer

“Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here.
No stranger would let it be if we met up
At midnight in the hanging tree.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“The greenish sky glows up in misty reds,
The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,
The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds,
And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.”

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet

"City Vignettes, I: Dawn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Walkin' the Tightrope, steppin' on my friends
Walkin' the tight rope, it was a shame and a sin.
Walkin the tight rope between wrong and right.
Walkin the tight-rope both day and night.”

Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–1990) American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist

"Tightrope", In Step
Song lyrics

“A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain…. The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XVI, section 3

“If this world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand (Stay) Stay with me”

Siobhan Fahey (1958) singer and songwriter in Banarama and Shakespears Sister

"Stay" (written with Marcella Detroit and David A. Stewart) - Video and full text online http://viddigger.blogspot.com/2007/04/shakespears-sister-stay.html <br class="br">Hormonally Yours (1992)

“Guilt is a rope that wears thin.”

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