Quotes About Grim

It's always the same sort of grim windy Northeast November day where if you were at home you'd be eating earth-tone soups in a warm kitchen, listening to the wind and glad of home and hearth.

All the world over, nursing their scars Sit the old fighting men, broke in the wars; All the world over, surly and grim Mocking the lilt of the conqueror's hymn.' —RUDYARD KIPLING.

The fighting man has a grim sense of justice, which it is dangerous to affront.

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.

He was as distant as the moon too, as expressionless & grim.

Being locked up for the first time in your life is a shattering experience and suicides are a grim fact of life in the nation's jails and prisons.

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

The fat, middle-aged landlady in her Venusian whistle-cricket hide dress and wubfur slippers repelled him; already this had become a grim experience.

What is so often laughable, in the stories of Kundera's Czechoslovakia, is how grimly serious just about everything turns out to be, jokes and games and pleasure included; what's laughable is how terribly little there is to laugh at with any joy.

What a place, George thought. Greasy, grim and ripe for murder.

I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.

Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

Now then Captain He turned back to Grim Your have questions, I answers, shall we see if they match? Please Grim said I appear to be your guest, have I you to thank for caring for me? Ferrus' shoulders sagged in evident disappointment Oh.... apparently they do not match... I was going to say strawberries!

Harry," Bob said. "Stars and skies, you're all right!" He hesitated for a second, and then said, "And looking grim. Even dressed in boxers with yellow duckies on them." I glanced down, and did my best to picture a vampire wearing boxers with yellow duckies. Or a wizard wearing yellow duckies, for that matter.

You're dead, son," Jack said. "Cheer is contraindicated.

Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle," the grim gaptain said, his voice stern.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

Né la morte aveva cessato di mietere

I understood why I'd been chosen. Why I'd been plucked out of the grim and struggle. I'd always been at war.