Top 396 Grim Reaper Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

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

Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement.

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

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

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

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.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

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

"I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a group, that every reaper I know is either irritable, egotistical, voyeuristic, or some combination of the three?" "That you fit in well?"

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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

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

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

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.

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.

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

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

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

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

I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo

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

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

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.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

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

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.

The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.

One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.

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.

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

I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart.

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

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

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

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.