52 Grim Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Moving On Courage Better Move On Energy Only Through Better Things Labor Effort Move Grim Painful Things Resolute

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Hope Great You Confidence Courage Determination Discipline Nation Our Resources Way Systematic Worthy Tackle Great Nation Message Issues Mobilize Grim Confront Us Organized Let Us Grave

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. Andrew Weil

Determination Remember Mind Breath Awareness Meditation Relaxation Point Pursued Openness Cultivate Undisciplined Walking Get Any Wandering Which Grim Should Your Include Right Technique

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia. Juliana Hatfield

Death Surrender Animal Sometimes Will Face Animals Drop Secret Puppies City Find Beach Rather Almost Longer Shelter Dogs Cover Conditions Than Afford Often Where Grim Certain Choose Who Whole Euthanasia Even Keep Pets Puerto Night

I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes. Roz Chast

Death Great Jokes Guess Analyzing Alive Relief Cartoons Obituaries Only Terror Lot Done Maybe Being Grim Reaper Illness Things

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

Think Estates Places Grim

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

Drive Every Corner London Motorbike Grim Reaper Round

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

Beautiful Madness Beauty Mad Cities Grim Gallant

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it. Colm Toibin

Determination Narcissism Difficult Think Pleasure Hidden Out Would Write Disapprove Sort Deal Question Anyway Grim Means Things Associate

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men. Colman Domingo

Positive Time History People Remember Black Men Our Plight Details Only Tend Fade True Undeniable Over Parts Gloss Dealing Itself Survive Forget American American History Grim Notion Species Amnesia Away Desire

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

More Cheated Know Times Than Anyone Grim Reaper

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry. Honeysuckle Weeks

You Suffering People Humor Uncle Sense Otherwise Ghastly Laugh Would Find Atmosphere About Emergency Something Hospitals He Put Lighten Cry Terrible Talked Dealing Came Often Grim Sketch Worked Who Shows Injuries

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters? Indira Gandhi

People Poverty Wish Further We Cannot Environment Greatest Forget Any Cannot Grim Moment Large Large Numbers Need Numbers

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

Tough Make Am Effort Any Grim Conscious Things Conscious Effort

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process. Katherine Dunn

Future Dreams Time Heart Awareness City About Delusions Prospects Toxic Boxing Precious Precious Time Blown Process Story Ashes Grim Realities Wasted Universal Fat Chances

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun. Katherine Dunn

Fiction Grim Hard Fun Even

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