Top 347 Grim Quotes & Sayings

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

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.

I don't think estates are grim places.

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

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

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

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

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

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

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

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.

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

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

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

I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

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.

When everything else is looking so grim and the world is changing so fast that it's scary, one thing that remains consistent is kindness.

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

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

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.

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

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

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

I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim.

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

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.

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

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

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

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

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

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

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

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

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

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

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

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

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.)

My life could have been so grim... really, really grim.

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.

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

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

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

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

As a child, I used to bite my toenails, which is grim. I can still do it.

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

The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

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

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

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

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