Grim Quotes - Page 6

• Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

  Asger Jorn

  Beautiful, Differences, Long

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Spiritual, Father, Russia

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Journey, Goes On

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• We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

  Craig Charles

  Growing Up, White, Black

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• Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

  Laurence Overmire

  Reality, Overcoming, Helping

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Spring, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Women, Brain, Intelligence

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• I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

  Alice Meynell

  Light, Sound, Bishops

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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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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• Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.

  Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

  Crow, Succeed, Bears

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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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• The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill

  Animal, Age, Yards

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• I don't think estates are grim places.

  Andrea Arnold

  Thinking, Estates

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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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• 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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• 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 remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

  Ron Chernow

  America, People, Wicked

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• That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Self

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

  Lindy Boggs

  Walking Away, Alaska, People

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• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Boys, Views

  YouTube Chanel "filmfestivals.com"/ "Woody Allen on life", www.youtube.com. May 17, 2010.

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• The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, People

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Giving, Sound

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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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