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• To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Honesty, Kindness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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

  Richard Sibbes

  Death, Christian, Blessing

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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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• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Generations, World

  "Something Under the Bed Is Drooling". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1988.

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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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• Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

  Jim Butcher

  Train Wrecks, Progress, Delight

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2310, Penguin

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• Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast, And hides the rough dark rocks of life's unrest When your fond eyes smile near in perigee. But when that loving face is turned from me, Low falls the tide, and the grim rocks appear, And earth's dim coast-line seems a thing to fear. You are the moon, dear one, and I the sea.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fall, Eye, Dark

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Moon And Sea”

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• You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yurs passes, you are not going to Idris." Clary felt as if he'd slapped her. She had thought he'd be pleased. She'd run all the way from the hospital to the Institute to tell him, and here he was standing in the entryway glaring at her with a look of grim death. "But you're going.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Ties, Insane

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.810, Simon and Schuster

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• Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the woods , the frolicking deer, a bird flying proudly, or fish swimming. Life is not all that grim. In the morning when you brush your teeth, you can see how shiny they are. Reality has its own gallantry, spark, and arrogance. You can study life while you are alive. You can study how you can achieve the brilliance of life.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Morning, Life Changing

  "The Path of Individual Liberation (volume 1): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One".

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

  Rashida Jones

  Mean, Situation

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• All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

  Barry Blitt

  Drawing, Trying, Stuff

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Witty, Caring, Law

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.563, Faber & Faber

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  One Day, Details, Life Is

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.253, LSU Press

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• God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities. God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't believe.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Dream, Determination, Prayer

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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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• If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Depressing, Lonely, Writing

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

  Germaine Greer

  Two, Guilt, Triangles

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Thinking, Virginia

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• All success is quite temporary if you don't work hard enough to maintain where you are. Talent can get you somewhere but character keeps you there. You have to build character along the way and know when and know how to take the victories from situations even though they might seem grim.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Hard Work, Character, Victory

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• You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Journey, Goal

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.817, Simon and Schuster

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• I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway and I would disapprove of it.

  Colm Toibin

  Determination, Writing, Mean

  "Writing is 'no fun', says Toíbín" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Things do look pretty grim, but I think there are more laughs in Hellboy in Hell than there are in B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth. I think Hell is getting nicer and Earth is getting worse. Once we figured out what we were doing, the whole point of the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. stuff has always been evolution. The kind of evolution we're seeing on Earth is nasty evolution - part of this kind of evolution is that you have to wipe out what was there before you can replace it.

  Mike Mignola

  Thinking, Laughing, Earth

  "Graphic Novel Friday: Interview with Mike Mignola (Part Two)". Interview With Alex Carr, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 5, 2013.

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• 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

  Environmental, Climate, Host

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.

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• The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

  Anita Loos

  Years, America, Fake

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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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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