Grim Quotes

206 quotes by 196 authors

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live… — Caleb Carr
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by… — Umberto Eco
I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple… — Ernest Rutherford
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the… — William James
If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that… — Russell Baker
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc â€¦ It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. — Asger Jorn
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. — James M. Cain
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to… — Mother Jones
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim… — Craig Charles
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… — Laurence Overmire
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the… — Bear Grylls
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted. — Taylor Caldwell
I cannot tell if what the world considers â€˜happinessâ€™ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go… — Zhuangzi
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… — Orison Swett Marden
Have you ever stopped to think what fun this business of living can be? If you haven't, and if you are one of those who… — Dorothy Draper
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch… — Alan Cranston
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all… — Vera Nazarian

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