Grim Quotes

206 quotes by 196 authors

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
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… — David Hockney
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,… — Theodore Roosevelt
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. — Emily Dickinson
Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying… — Lierre Keith
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't… — E E Cummings
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke
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… — C.S. Lewis
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. — Alexander Pope
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who… — Indira Gandhi
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… — Ron Fournier
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… — Stephen Fry
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the… — Germaine Greer
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. — Benedict Cumberbatch
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile. — Rashida Jones
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public… — Anita Loos
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and… — Michael E. Mann
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. — Lester B. Pearson

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