But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. — John Milton Copy Share Image
For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load:… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There's a great line by Joss Whedon: "Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us… — William James Copy Share Image
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to… — William Cameron Forbes Copy Share Image
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
