Grim Quotes

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

And, ah, who are you? What Horseman, I mean.” Thanatos swung around. “Death.” Cara swallowed. Audibly. “As in, the Grim Reaper?” He snorted. “That poser.

Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties.

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.