Quotes of Grim - somelinesforyou

“ There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms — hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. ”

- James Thurber

“ Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world. ”

- Werner Herzog

“ We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. ”

- Francis of Assisi

“ 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. ”

- J. Donald Walters

“ To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. ”

- Françoise Sagan

“ Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific. ”

- Lord Byron

“ A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. ”

- Terry Tempest Williams

“ A grisly meteor on his face. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ He's one of the toughest I've been involved with. He's played under some horrific injuries. ”

- Wayne Bennett

“ It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. ”

- Nicolas Boileau

“ The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. ”

- Jessica Mitford

“ I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly. ”

- Rod Stewart

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

- Robert Alton Harris

“ Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear. ”

- Philip Howard

“ European Catholics tend to be somewhat grim and dour and straightlaced. We shouldn't have been, but we are. We can learn from the Latinos that Catholicism is a religion of festivity and celebration. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm. ”

- Tom C. Clark

“ The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday. ”

- Roselle Mercier Montgomery

“ No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit. ”

- Robert K. Greenleaf

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The sense of humor is the oil of life's engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes before a hearty laugh. ”

- George S. Merriam
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