Grim Quotes 

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.

thomas gray

— Thomas Gray, The Bard, (1757), II, 2, Line 9.

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Come, see the Dolphin's anchor forged; 'tis at a white heat now: The billows ceased, the flames decreased; though on the forge's brow The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound; And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare; Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the windlass there.


— Samuel Ferguson, The Forging of the Anchor, Stanza 1.

Tags: see, anchor, forged, white, heat, now, billows, ceased, flames

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All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

indira gandhi

— Referring to the fundamental rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the United States Declaration of Independence in a letter to Richard Nixon (December 15, 1971).[2]

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Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

asger jorn

— Ansigt til Ansigt [Face to Face], A-5, 1 (1944), p. 14

Tags: Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, contradictory, makes, difference, long

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Theyare sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 578 Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

john milton

— 1637  Lycidas, l.122-31.

Tags: sped, when, list, lean, flashy, songs, scrannel, wretched, straw

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The grim fact, however, is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson

— 1957  Acceptance speech on receiving the Nobel peace prize, 11 Dec.

Tags: fact, we, prepare, war, precocious, giants, peace, retarded, pygmies

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That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

rose wilder lane

— Written in 1935, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993)

Tags: life, against, generation, rebelled, given, us, courage, fortitude, selfdiscipline

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The grim shape Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me.

william wordsworth

— Bk. I, l. 381.

Tags: shape, Towered, me, stars, purpose, own, measured, motion, living

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When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river’s reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.

alexander blok

— "Autumn Love" (1907); translation from C. M. Bowra (ed.) A Book of Russian Verse (London: Macmillan, 1943) p. 99.

Tags: When, rowan, leaves, dank, rusting, berries, red, blood, palm

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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit , faith without smile , truth that is never seized by doubt . The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

Umberto Eco

— William of Baskerville

Tags: Devil, Prince, Matter, arrogance, spirit, faith, without, smile, truth

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Poor Felix Randal; How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years, When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers, Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!

gerard manley hopkins

— Felix Randal, lines 11-14

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He rode as rides the hurricane; He seem'd to swallow up the plain; He rode as never man did ride, He rode, for ghosts rode at his side, And on his right a grizzled grim No, no, this tale is not of him.

joaquin miller

— I, p. 15. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))

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Beside The grim old sea-king sits his bride, A sun-land blossom, rudely torn From tropic forests to be worn Above as stern a breast as e'er Stood king at sea or anywhere.

joaquin miller

— III, p. 22. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

john milton

— Line 123. (Lycidas (1637))

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"Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

edgar allan poe

— Stanza 8. (The Raven (1844))

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I met Murder on the way He had a mask like Castlereagh Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

— St. 2. (The Mask of Anarchy (1819))

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Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore, Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"


— Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven (1844), Stanza 8.

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The goal of the state is to find some practice that is universally reviled and pose as the one and only way of expunging it from society. The best example today is child pornography, a grim and ghastly industry that every decent person would like to see eradicated from the earth. But in the name of doing so, the state invades everyone's privacy, controls speech, interferes with families, and otherwise uses the issue as a wedge to eliminate every freedom.


— Lew Rockwell. But What About the Children?

Tags: goal, state, find, practice, universally, reviled, pose, one, society

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Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.


— Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 45.

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There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyard a pauper is going I wot; The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.

thomas noel

— Thomas Noel, The Pauper's Drive.

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In particular with the grim struggle for the succession still fresh in their minds, they urged - very reasonably - that before leaving Macedonia he should marry and beget an heir. However, the king rejected this motion out of hand, a decision which was to cause untold bloodshed and political chaos after his death. It would be shameful, he told them, for the captain - general of the Hellenes, with Philip's invincible army at his command, to idle his time away on matrimonial dalliance...


— Peter Green, "Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography"

Tags: struggle, succession, fresh, minds, urged, reasonably, before, leaving, Macedonia

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There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.


— Harlan F. Stone, Morehead v. N.Y. ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587, 632 (1936).

Tags: There, irony, speaking, freedom, contract, who, economic, necessities, give

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Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him.

ogden nash

— Ogden Nash, The Hippopotamus

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Oh, if I had Orpheus ' voice and poetry with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord, I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below. I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim King's dog could not prevent me then from carrying you up into the fields of light.


— l. 358.

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Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught, And spent my little life without a thought, And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim, Should think of me, who never thought of him.


— Abbé Regnier; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90.

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I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.


— Clarence, scene iv

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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

— "Death"

Tags: Everyone, time, Death, hides, clocks, Imposing, another, powered, Clock

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grim death.

Philip Massinger

— The Roman Actor (1626), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Grim death, my son and foe", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book ii, line 804.

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


— Who: Robert Alton Harris, d. April 21, 1992

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