Grim Reaper Quotes

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

  Robert Alton Harris

  Inspirational, Dance, Kings

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

  Patrick Carman

  Disappear, Reaper, Grim

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• Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

  Federico Fellini

  Pain, Law, Imagination

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cute, Song, People

  FaceBook post by Rachel Vincent from Aug 03, 2011

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• I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
  cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
  I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
  we've only got so many tricks.
  no one lives forever.

  Danny Elfman

  Death, Clever, Cutting

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• I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Nails, More Time

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• Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice.

  Darynda Jones

  Nice, Should Have, Kind

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.165, St. Martin's Press

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• Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Air, Soul, Vampire

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

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

  Gerald R. Ford

  World, Massage, Feels

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• And, ah, who are you? What Horseman, I mean.” Thanatos swung around. “Death.” Cara swallowed. Audibly. “As in, the Grim Reaper?” He snorted. “That poser.

  Larissa Ione

  Mean, Posers, Thanatos

  Larissa Ione (2011). “Eternal Rider: Number 1 in series”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• Sadly, I cant 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

  People, Age, Littles

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

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  London, Motorbike, Corners

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• 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).

  Kate Atkinson

  Cheerful, Would Be, Letters

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.144, Random House

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• Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

  Lora Leigh

  Cheer, Should, Goodwill

  Lora Leigh (2013). “Elite Ops Complete Series”, p.590, Macmillan

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

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hair, Red, Said

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• In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Book, Character

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• Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had been restored, and I'd whacked a psychotic grim reaper with a cast-iron skillet. Weirdest. Tuesday. Ever.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cousin, Aunt, Iron

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.273, Harlequin

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• 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.)

  Markus Zusak

  Ideas, Halos, Way

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.75, RH Childrens Books

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