“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.”

“I am the beast at the end of the rope.”

Sarah Kane (1971–1999) playwright from England

“What are you?
"A man with a rope?"
"Ha-ha.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

“I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.”

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

“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

“I'd love to see a midget battle royale, throw your man over the bottom rope”

Bobby Heenan (1944–2017) American professional wrestler, professional wrestling commentator and manager

“A man may be a thoroughgoing soldier enough on land; but put him in the foot ropes of the flying jibboom in a storm, and he is apt to cut a most ludicrous figure. Shift a physicist's foothold of Cartesian differential coordinates, suspend him over an abyss of non-Euclidean space, and he will kick sturdily. Poor policy this, for a missionary!”

Carl Barus (1856–1935) U.S. physicist

“What are you" -Mac

"I don't follow" -Jericho

"You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac

"A man with a rope." -Jericho”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:
by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well.
There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man,
for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“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