Grim Quotes

206 quotes by 196 authors

We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of… — Edmund Muskie
The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people I… — G.M.B. Akash
My life could have been so grim really, really grim. — Graham Norton
Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. — L. Ron Hubbard
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to… — James M. Cain
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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… — Rachel Martin
All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see… — Burgess Meredith
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time. — Madeleine Albright
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… — Desiderius Erasmus
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within… — Konrad Lorenz
Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile. — Yakov Smirnoff
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was… — Vance Havner
There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. — Homer
How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war! — Tibullus
I don't think estates are grim places. — Andrea Arnold
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… — Beverly Cleary
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town. — Stanley Donen

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