52 Grim Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal. Lykke Li

Relationship You Tears Out Pretty Magical Something Take Facts Failed Make Normal Very Represent Grim Create Hard Album

My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable. Lynda Barry

The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty. It honors a time when pictures helped Americans get through grim periods like the blacklist and the war. Martin Landau

War Time People Made Honors Tribute Through Feel Majestic Pictures Like Periods Boxes Dull Get American Modern Movie Grim Helped Pays Palaces Mundane Royalty

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

Smile Pictures Always Lot Grim

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. Michael E. Mann

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it. Nicholas Kristof

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny. Nick Cave

Funny Myself Long First Consider Way Those Entertain Find Write Writer Stuff Hours Comic Foremost Office Grim

Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado. Paul Johnson

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When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting. Peter Saul

Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a stand against petty or protracted hostility between girls. Rachel Simmons

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. Regina Brett

You Reality Book Sometimes Ending Father Will Too Enough Books Hid About Part Soon Come Tales Also Read Fairy Fairy Tales Up Just Censor Rabbit Grim Grandkids Skip Peter

'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills. Richard Corliss

Burger Harmonious Defined Out Neil Admirable Some Divergent Directed Segregated Laying Boundaries Veronica Six Grim Dystopia Regions Inhabitants Skills Roth Displayed Novelist Seriousness

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty grim and grisly. Audience members may feel like prisoners of war forced to watch a training-torture film. Richard Corliss

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Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943. Richard Flanagan

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. Ron Fournier

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When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure. Tara Brach

Spiritual Class World School Path First Late Out High Introduced High School About Seemed Spiritual Path Attachment Studies Buddhism Days Concern Hand Hedonistic Grim Dismissed Apparently

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

Determination Money Someday Never Wanted Grim Needed

Sadly, I can't 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

Age People Fingernails Heading Sharpen Towards Longer Like Sadly Am Clinging Hang Just Being Grim Little Reaper Avoid Many

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success. William Cameron Forbes

Success Death Director Met Has-Been He Make Himself Were Been Camp Public Grim Plan Working Transportation Works

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

Smile Think See American Soviets Want Grim Them

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury. George Monbiot

Truth Truth Is Space Luxury Rich Live Others Everyone Neither Physical Able Only Ecological Pursue Because Private Nor Grim Poor

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