Top 100 Grim's Quotes

#1. 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.

Bruce Dern

Grim's Quotes #7455
#2. Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

David D. Burns

Grim's Quotes #87950
#3. Let's just say that my father is a very powerful man."
"That's a little understated, don't you think? ... You know, seeing how he's the Grim fucking Reaper.

Larissa Ione

Grim's Quotes #99130
#4. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

Grim's Quotes #101319
#5. This group is known as the watchers. And to be a watcher is a woman's fortune.
He said that last bit as though it was the greatest honor girls like us could ever attain. My thoughts turned grim. It was once considered an honor to be a sacrificial lamb, too.

Veronica Wolff

Grim's Quotes #167285
#6. The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.

Drew Karpyshyn

Grim's Quotes #170837
#7. I usually only draw myself in down periods ... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

David Hockney

Grim's Quotes #184009
#8. You live in a grim universe."
"That's risk management for you.

Max Gladstone

Grim's Quotes #258674
#9. It's infinitely better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.-Grim

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Grim's Quotes #267615
#10. The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,
Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught
In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront
Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

D.H. Lawrence

Grim's Quotes #279326
#11. Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

John Updike

Grim's Quotes #296169
#12. I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Stephen King

Grim's Quotes #340475
#13. There's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

Simone Elkeles

Grim's Quotes #365311
#14. It's very interesting that most of the roles I've gotten are grim, when I'm actually a very well-adjusted man and had a happy upbringing. I guess there are some dark shadows somewhere in there, but I'm a big kid.

Tony Todd

Grim's Quotes #403983
#15. I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

Beverly Cleary

Grim's Quotes #442177
#16. Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.

Ryan Grim

Grim's Quotes #457417
#17. In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

Alexander Pope

Grim's Quotes #492163
#18. If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

Lykke Li

Grim's Quotes #495430
#19. My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

Grim's Quotes #521082
#20. We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.

Rachel Martin

Grim's Quotes #523295
#21. It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh ... Robert Schumann has been mentioned ... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath ... some of them with rather grim ends.

Stephen Fry

Grim's Quotes #594493
#22. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

William Shakespeare

Grim's Quotes #611188
#23. Even with the Brotherhood as support, going to the colony was a suicide mission - and she was willing to bet there were a lot of people having sex under the mansion's roof right now.
Sometimes you had to have a taste of life right before you knocked on the Grim Reaper's front
door.

J.R. Ward

Grim's Quotes #627214
#24. William gave the gallerist a grim look. In my experience, he said, crooks are usually the least dishonest of the bunch. It's not in their interest to deceive you, sir. This is how they make their living. Be patient.

Steven Price

Grim's Quotes #627736
#25. The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

Gregory Funaro

Grim's Quotes #629143
#26. 'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.

Richard Corliss

Grim's Quotes #654423
#27. One was Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this. And multiple sources have said that this was authored by Roger Ailes himself.

Ryan Grim

Grim's Quotes #656974
#28. People talk as if grief were just a feeling
as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

C.S. Lewis

Grim's Quotes #677890
#29. I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

Charles M. Schulz

Grim's Quotes #687739
#30. Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason
you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Desiderius Erasmus

Grim's Quotes #692609
#31. It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

Bill Watterson

Grim's Quotes #731987
#32. I'd love to get fat on camera. Wouldn't that be great? I'll tell you what's almost as hard though, getting bulked up, getting that big. Here we are in LA and you see guys walking down the street and everyone looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's really quite grim, if you haven't done it before.

Jeremy Irvine

Grim's Quotes #733312
#33. When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

Bill Nighy

Grim's Quotes #736883
#34. And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Octavia Butler

Grim's Quotes #742681
#35. A thunder blazed from the hells now, and it touched the Earth's ground.Grim clouds floated across the vault of Earth. A heavy rain pelted against the revolving sphere, which made destructions a lot.Nature danced with a haunting pain in the midst of human deterioration.

Nithin Purple

Grim's Quotes #771375
#36. I know the grim probability of my own future.
The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped away and that id I don't keep hold of myself I will lose what's left.

Laura Wiess

Grim's Quotes #773000
#37. Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine]

Kresley Cole

Grim's Quotes #794150
#38. If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.

Tim Schafer

Grim's Quotes #798537
#39. All I know for sure is that I have accidentally fallen through a wormhole in the universe and stumbled into someone else's grim life.

Augusten Burroughs

Grim's Quotes #802603
#40. Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

Regina Brett

Grim's Quotes #824281
#41. Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

Anne Lamott

Grim's Quotes #834964
#42. Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

Laurence Overmire

Grim's Quotes #848468
#43. I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

Jo Brand

Grim's Quotes #854857
#44. I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

Woody Allen

Grim's Quotes #866607
#45. Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

Grim's Quotes #869504
#46. There's very little that frightens me more than the Grim Reaper when he's horny.

Larissa Ione

Grim's Quotes #894891
#47. There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.

Terry Eagleton

Grim's Quotes #936809
#48. All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

Peggy Orenstein

Grim's Quotes #939006
#49. I spent a lot of last night being moody and grim.
I'm a vampire. We're allowed to do that. It's in all the brochures.

Garon Whited

Grim's Quotes #945953
#50. It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.

Simon R. Green

Grim's Quotes #950061
#51. First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

John Milton

Grim's Quotes #957651
#52. Death is permanent. There's no coming back if you get off the ferryman's boat.

Martha Sweeney

Grim's Quotes #979523
#53. A society where you're not allowed to blow your own trumpet is so much more nuanced, sophisticated and interesting than the grim world of literalism that's being ushered in.

David Mitchell

Grim's Quotes #980931
#54. I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue.

Robert Browning

Grim's Quotes #994934
#55. There has to be more than this," I said. The doctor looked up from his grim work with a bemused smile. "Is there?" he said. "Please show me." He lifted the man's heart and seemed to weigh it in one hand.

Dan Simmons

Grim's Quotes #1048679
#56. Damn it, I needed The Idiot's Guide to Grim Reaperism.

Darynda Jones

Grim's Quotes #1055696
#57. What say of it? what say of CONSCIENCE grim, That spectre in my path? Chamberlayne's Pharronida.

Anonymous

Grim's Quotes #1088340
#58. To them he's the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.

Kat Kruger

Grim's Quotes #1091600
#59. Well", Holden said, his voice grim, "we have a major problem. We're out of coffee."
"We still got beer," Amos said.
"Yes," Holden said. "But beer is not coffee.

James S.A. Corey

Grim's Quotes #1108519
#60. It was Grim's car but Satan was driving.

Juliann Whicker

Grim's Quotes #1110197
#61. One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit.

Woody Allen

Grim's Quotes #1126486
#62. The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world - and forever it shall be - with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich.

Aleksandar Hemon

Grim's Quotes #1127554
#63. 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.

Orison Swett Marden

Grim's Quotes #1153838
#64. Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life that we take comfort in. Why else would anyone watch Haneke films or read Sebald? The material is grim, but it's redeemed by the quality of the attention.

Teju Cole

Grim's Quotes #1161099
#65. Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.

Anthony Liccione

Grim's Quotes #1164840
#66. I was so grateful to see Lissa okay that I missed what Eddie had already noticed. "You guys, where are Victor and Robert?"
Lissa's face crumpled, and even Adrian looked grim. "Damn it," I said, needing no explanation.
Lissa nodded, eyes wide with distraught. "We lost them.

Richelle Mead

Grim's Quotes #1186071
#67. I follow her, my black shirt open and flying in the wind behind me like a vampire's cape. Either that or the grim reaper's.

Simone Elkeles

Grim's Quotes #1194496
#68. The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

Edgar Wright

Grim's Quotes #1240838
#69. Well, that's the thing about dressing up in an outfit, isn't it?" His smile was gone. Now he looked pale and grim. Like everyone else in Derry, in other words. "When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside." 4

Stephen King

Grim's Quotes #1248494
#70. Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

Ron Fournier

Grim's Quotes #1252350
#71. It's always the same sort of grim windy Northeast November day where if you were at home you'd be eating earth-tone soups in a warm kitchen, listening to the wind and glad of home and hearth.

David Foster Wallace

Grim's Quotes #1252763
#72. You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

Bruce Campbell

Grim's Quotes #1258709
#73. And your green eyes are the color of the hills- the color of my home.' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Aye, there's something about you, Lindsey Waters.

Cyndi Tefft

Grim's Quotes #1269962
#74. Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.

Tish Thawer

Grim's Quotes #1307186
#75. 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.

Sally Phillips

Grim's Quotes #1349527
#76. There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom.
'Why-why-she's like me! She understands how I feel'!

Margaret Mitchell

Grim's Quotes #1352754
#77. He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white.

James O'Barr

Grim's Quotes #1363174
#78. That's hard core, Gin," Finn replied. "Very hard core. Kind of kinky too." A grim smile tightened my lips. "That's me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

Jennifer Estep

Grim's Quotes #1365752
#79. How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection..

Hunter S. Thompson

Grim's Quotes #1370822
#80. It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

Django Wexler

Grim's Quotes #1381078
#81. It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong.

Robyn Carr

Grim's Quotes #1431781
#82. The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

Tim Winton

Grim's Quotes #1442630
#83. Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.

Annalee Newitz

Grim's Quotes #1454814
#84. A grim smile stretches across my face.
He's coming.
The devil is coming for me.

Laura Thalassa

Grim's Quotes #1458996
#85. I kill on order. I am everyone's assassin. I belong to no one but the grim reaper herself.

Katherine Ewell

Grim's Quotes #1484580
#86. Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway - U.S. 66,

Edward Abbey

Grim's Quotes #1545854
#87. I was the badass Consort and he was the grim Pack's executioner. Hugging him in the hallways would be entirely inappropriate.

Ilona Andrews

Grim's Quotes #1551262
#88. The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything ... he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys.

Jack Kerouac Atop An Underwood Early Stories And Other Writings

Grim's Quotes #1560471
#89. I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

Emma Watson

Grim's Quotes #1565423
#90. On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless." And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Grim's Quotes #1613352
#91. I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

Rachel Vincent

Grim's Quotes #1621711
#92. Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.

Ryan Grim

Grim's Quotes #1622361
#93. Col. Lloyd's plantation resembles what the baronial domains were during the middle ages in Europe. Grim, cold, and unapproachable by all genial influences from communities without, there it stands; full three hundred years behind the age,

Frederick Douglass

Grim's Quotes #1631567
#94. He died without cutting his nails, she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar's nails to build the ship that would bring chaos at the world's end.

Bernard Cornwell

Grim's Quotes #1643142
#95. For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly stride: With iron heel it slays the strong, The monstrous parricide!

Oscar Wilde

Grim's Quotes #1715994
#96. Zobrist yesterday afternoon." "We most certainly did - " Sienna placed a restraining hand on Langdon's arm. "Robert ... " She gave a grim sigh. "Six

Dan Brown

Grim's Quotes #1721039
#97. Their textbooks would show me in grim illustration,
The most hideous thing even seen in creation
The museum would commission a model in plaster
Of ME, to be called, "Evolution's Disaster"!

Bill Watterson

Grim's Quotes #1741065
#98. It was only then that he met Villefort's dull gaze, that look peculiar to men of the law who do not want anyone to read their thoughts, and so make their eyes into unpolished glass. The look reminded him that he was standing before Justice, a figure of grim aspect and manners.

Alexandre Dumas

Grim's Quotes #1748892
#99. Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Federico Fellini

Grim's Quotes #1752766
#100. Maybe it really was a spirit," Pen offers.
"Spirits aren't real," he says. "The living invent them to console themselves. If you girls ever see a spirit, you'll know for certain you're alive."
Pen crinkles her nose. "Well that's grim.

Lauren DeStefano

Grim's Quotes #1793298

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