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Hatred had blossomed from the vine of contempt in his heart, flowers of dark, grim splendor. — Aleksandr Voinov

A grim smile stretches across my face.
He's coming.
The devil is coming for me. — Laura Thalassa

[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. — Yann Martel

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. — Homer

Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times. — Edward McPherson

I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone, — Neil Gaiman

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark. — Andrew Vachss

All I know for sure is that I have accidentally fallen through a wormhole in the universe and stumbled into someone else's grim life. — Augusten Burroughs

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.) — Markus Zusak

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. — Neville Cardus

there is no nation but the French that can smile even in the face of grim Death himself. — Alexandre Dumas

It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong. — Robyn Carr

The grim
egoism (egotism)
of mourning
of suffering — Roland Barthes

CHAPTER NINE GRIM — J.K. Rowling

I follow her, my black shirt open and flying in the wind behind me like a vampire's cape. Either that or the grim reaper's. — Simone Elkeles

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. — John Milton

But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up. — Patricia Cornwell

and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with — L.M. Montgomery

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim. — Bruce Campbell

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted. — Taylor Caldwell

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile. — Laini Taylor

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

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile. — Rashida Jones

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic. — Shereen El Feki

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. — William Shakespeare

You live in a grim universe."
"That's risk management for you. — Max Gladstone

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel. — Donald Hall

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still. — Mike Barnicle

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher

On those grim days when he felt surrounded by the vacuum of absurdity, he always felt particularly weary. He tried to blame his weariness on the daily — Jose Saramago

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy. — Stephen King

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile. — Yakov Smirnoff

Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim. — Chanda Hahn

Saved my life," Grim said.
"You saved mine."
"Good team, then. — Juliet Marillier

I was the badass Consort and he was the grim Pack's executioner. Hugging him in the hallways would be entirely inappropriate. — Ilona Andrews

Hans and Christian just stare at me, faces grim. All I can think of is how awesome it would be if my name were Andersen. — Cyn Balog

Wait, maybe I could get a reality TV contract. We could call it Grim in the City. — Darynda Jones

You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair! — Jeaniene Frost

The leaves, they run like mice, while birds peck at the ground. The wood has rotted in its bin. The grim axe has come round — Andre Alexis

That is thy home burning. That is the Normans' work, and never thee forget it! — Rosemary Sutcliff

At the end of their grim race, death might be the only prize. — Lloyd Alexander

If only he had more humor, more life in him; that was what was needed here. Grim places needed lightening, not solemnity, — George R R Martin

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. — James M. Cain

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

I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves. — Ryan Grim

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring. — Rohinton Mistry

Damn it, I needed The Idiot's Guide to Grim Reaperism. — Darynda Jones

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. — Seneca The Younger

Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine."
"My mom suffers from those a lot, too."
"Being around you, I imagine she does. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

From all that I heard, and overheard, fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed. — V.C. Andrews

To them he's the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper. — Kat Kruger

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail. — John Kennedy Toole

By now I can recognize the women at a glance ... with faces that are either grim
or good-humored, depending on the mood of their husbands. — Anne Frank

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time. — Madeleine Albright

It's infinitely better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.-Grim — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I kill people with my tattoo machine. — Abigail Baker

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so ... grim. — Michael Douglas

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim. — Peggy Orenstein

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity. — Dr. Sherwin Nuland

Death is permanent. There's no coming back if you get off the ferryman's boat. — Martha Sweeney

Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself. — Liesl Shurtliff

Far over the misty mountains grim To dungeons deep and caverns dim — Anonymous

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years? — Sara Sheridan

Thanatos swung around. "Death." Cara swallowed. Audibly. "As in, the Grim Reaper?" He snorted. "That poser. He deals with evil souls. — Larissa Ione

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

I bet the sleazeball buttered you up with loads of compliments too?'
Cleo gave a grim nod. 'Yes, he did. He said my trowel was awesome. — Helen Moss

Love is blind."
"Love is Grim. — Chanda Hahn

I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh. — Jack Vance

You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better. — Randy Pausch

When the Grim Reaper comes to call, words fail- they're just too small. — Dixie Lyle

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged. — Rebecca Solnit

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he'd spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart. — Tara Janzen

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. — Theodore Roosevelt

A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not. — Leonora Carrington

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning... — Rebecca McNutt

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

I kill on order. I am everyone's assassin. I belong to no one but the grim reaper herself. — Katherine Ewell

I did not rush in with the vim I would have displayed a year or so earlier, before Life had made me the grim, suspicious man I am to-day: — P.G. Wodehouse

Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it. — Lev Grossman

It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion — Joe Abercrombie

So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world? — Mindee Arnett

I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book. — Stephen King

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition — Baruch Spinoza

Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls. — Tish Thawer

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley

I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue. — Robert Browning

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves. — Ravi Zacharias

However grim the world, we are what we have evolved into. — Jim Harrison

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him. — Robert Graves

Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child. — Jack Kornfield

There's very little that frightens me more than the Grim Reaper when he's horny. — Larissa Ione

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality. — Edmund H. North

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV. — Bill Watterson

Attracted to one of the Silent?
His mouth set in a grim line. He'd cut off his own balls before he accepted that. — Nalini Singh

In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too. — Dan Abnett

The grim and gritty '90s thing is actually a teenage idea of what adult content is. — Jamie McKelvie

I'm thirty-nine years old. I've got a wife that I can't get rid of. I've got varicose veins. I've got five false teeth. — George Orwell

I don't think estates are grim places. — Andrea Arnold