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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

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

When you think of me," she said quietly "think of a food you love very much. — Lemony Snicket

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

A portrait of a muscular grey-haired man with a grim, almost demented gaze and the sort of moustache that could beat you in an arm-wrestling contest. — Ned Beauman

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

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard. — Jim Murphy

She was the angel. My guardian angel disguised as the fucking grim reaper. — Mary Martel

How deep was the grim sorter of the dark and the foul going to send me? — Andrew Davidson

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

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

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. — Joseph Conrad

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

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. — Marshall McLuhan

So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories. — Tad Williams

The dark eyes are for the villains ... the Grim Reaper,the Joker, zombies. All dark. — Lucy Christopher

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day. — Daniel Woodrell

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. — Octavia Butler

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. — Lester B. Pearson

I can't look people in the eye and tell them that they're going to die anymore. — Rebecca McNutt

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

I spent a lot of last night being moody and grim.
I'm a vampire. We're allowed to do that. It's in all the brochures. — Garon Whited

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

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

She would love him so hard, so completely, so openly and without fear that the universe would shudder at her recklessness. — Lexi George

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

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

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. — Don Marquis

You become a changed person when you face the reaper and deny him your soul. — Martha Sweeney

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. — D.H. Lawrence

eyes were grim. We both knew the — Craig Johnson

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould

At last the spring thaw came, and graves were laboriously prepared for the nine silent harvests of the grim reaper which waited in the tomb. — H.P. Lovecraft

I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career. — Kristan Higgins

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

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. — Joss Whedon

On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls. — Hajime Isayama

The tattered lace of darkness still hung over the city, as if night were a grim bride trudging to the horizon, trailing her shadowy train. — Laini Taylor

Their dance with the Grim Reaper had arrived. After tonight, there'd be no turning back. opening of GUT-CHECK GREEN — Peter Prasad

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know. — Eddie Rickenbacker

There is no reason for him to be in a strange land, the grim reaper holding him close, saying, "Yes, today is the day," or "No, not yet. — Suzanne Hayes

Not one in twenty was ever rich enough to own a real sword." His look was grim. "So how do you like the taste of your victories now, Lord Snow? — George R R Martin

He'd imagined a dark, grim mining village, full of slack faced children, the product of a long term inbreeding programme. — Allan Watson

It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world. — Gerald R. Ford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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