Grim Quotes - Page 5

• The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

  Dean Koontz

  Civilization, Fascination, Barbarians

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.101, Bantam

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• My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

  Stanley Donen

  Long, Childhood, Southern

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• 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 fourth-graders with them.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Book, Want

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• 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 of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Wall, Idols

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

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• I don't think estates are grim places.

  Andrea Arnold

  Thinking, Estates

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• 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 write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

  James M. Cain

  Country, Writing, Character

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• Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Jokes

  A letter to his wife Polly in October 1938. "Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard" by Russell Miller, p. 81, 1987.

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• My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

  Graham Norton

  Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• 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 portray may be grim, back-breaking, depraved, the people themselves are always remarkable characters and souls

  G.M.B. Akash

  Character, People, Soul

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• 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 themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Struggle, Soul, Together

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.27, Dell

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• 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, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Rain, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.203, Penguin

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• 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 week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.

  Rachel Martin

  Thinking, Weekend, Npr

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• There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Giving, Soul, Together

  Morehead v. N.Y. ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587, (632), 1936.

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• 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 little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.

  Burgess Meredith

  Memories, Eye, Boys

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• 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, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Country, Land

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• Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Eye, Gay, Laughing

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Poems”

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• Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Done, Persons

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Sleep, Winning, Night

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1930). “The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule”

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• Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.

  Mike Berenstain

  Spiritual, Children, Simple

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Who are these evil ones? In 1984, the evil one was called Goldstein. Orwell was writing a grim parody. But these people running the United States mean what they say. If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

  John Pilger

  Running, Teacher, Book

  Source: progressive.org

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• It was really executed well, from the art direction to the wardrobe to everyone else. And I have to say, two really exceptional directors who did three each. Roxann [Dawson] did the first three and Jeremy [Webb] did the second three. And I think they really were very meticulous in getting the right tone because it is both. It isn't dour and it isn't grim, but it's not a romp either. It's truthful and it has room for both of those things.

  Gary Cole

  Art, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

  Sally Phillips

  Insecure, Dvds, Language

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• Many of us were a little to early to assume that the most logical uses of the internet in authoritarian states would be to empower people. And to force them towards participation in politics. If you look at most authoritarian states, they are very grim places to live in. The only good thing about it is fast internet. That's the only way you can find some meaning in an otherwise very dark and gloomy life.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Dark, People, Empowering

  "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.

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• When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

  Bill Nighy

  Honest, Bad Things

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• Sadly, I cant avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!

  Terry Wogan

  People, Age, Littles

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