Grim Quotes

206 quotes by 196 authors

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… — Octavia Butler
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in… — Nick Cave
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. — Marshall McLuhan
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes… — Henry David Thoreau
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play. — Howard Bloom
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… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. — Richard Sibbes
Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit. — Robert K. Greenleaf
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. — Seneca the Younger
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals,… — Colin Powell
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. — Robert Alton Harris
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs:… — Janet Morris
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the… — Chogyam Trungpa
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health… — Walter Brueggemann
The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. — D. H. Lawrence
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… — Tony Todd
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what… — John C. Bogle
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting… — Marc Ian Barasch

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