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Quotes About Grim

How do people cope? Do you have to go? What happens if you refuse on the grounds of it being just too fucking grim?
~ Nick Hornby
I look like shit, dead. I look like dead shit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If Castle Dracula screwed a hospital, this would be the bastard offspring.
~ Larissa Ione
Let's just say that my father is a very powerful man." "That's a little understated, don't you think? … You know, seeing how he's the Grim fucking Reaper.
~ Larissa Ione
Ah!" returned the man, with a relish; "he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters. That's the sentence.
~ Charles Dickens
They cut her and cooked her and ate her up.
~ James Patterson
the surly orphan of American politics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism." People
~ Hampton Sides
Mrs. Belle Gunness, the grim widow of La Porte, Indiana, with her castle of death and her yard filled with graves
~ Harold Schechter
The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.
~ Lemony Snicket
When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
~ Peter Saul
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
~ Claes Oldenburg
For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly stride: With iron heel it slays the strong, The monstrous parricide!
~ Oscar Wilde
To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.
~ Dan Brown
Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.
~ Dan Simmons
You know, I don't at all hesitate to be a bit utopian about all this because I think hope is itself an act, a very big leap, which in a sense defies the grim facts always about us and opens up new ways of thinking about things.
~ Daniel Berrigan
A corpse is seldom attractive.
~ Helen Nielsen
At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light;
~ Leonard Ravenhill
A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people and the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.
~ Leonora Carrington
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 familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.
~ lewis c s vii
I find 'EastEnders' so utterly bleak.
~ Ben Fogle
The dead are on their way to work, grey limbs rubbing together in an open grave, stack on stack in the metal containers of car, tube and train. The grisly carriages are painted bright colors, guillotine colors of tumbril and blade, execution-bright. Each man and woman goes to their particular scaffold, kneels, and is killed day after day. Each collects their severed head and catches the train home. Some say that they enjoy their work.
~ Jeanette Winterson
That's Morrowseer — not exactly a "good morning, how are you, nice grim sulfur-smelling weather we're having" kind of dragon.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Dawn, slowly filling Church Street with grey light, disclosed another day of war. Because it did this, this dawn bore no more resemblance to a peace-time dawn than the aspect of nature on a Sunday bears a resemblance to the aspect of nature on a weekday. Thus it seemed that dawn itself had been grimly harnessed to the war effort.
~ Patrick Hamilton
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier