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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair! -- Jeaniene Frost
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. -- Robert Alton Harris
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. -- Lester B. Pearson
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes. -- Roz Chast
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
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
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. -- Regina Brett
The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up. -- Patrick Carman
I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it. -- Rachel Vincent
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. -- Orison Swett Marden
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
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The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys. -- Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. -- William Shakespeare
If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up. -- Tim Schafer
It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim Tuesday -- Garth Nix
She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew that there would never be anything that could quench those fires except death. Vanessa knew that Jango had become his own Grim Reaper. -- Cedric Nye
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
I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross. -- Emma Watson
I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. -- Michael Douglas
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time. -- Madeleine Albright
Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile. -- Rashida Jones
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted. -- Taylor Caldwell
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. -- Christopher Morley
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. -- Joss Whedon
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. -- James M. Cain
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. -- Marshall McLuhan
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We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. -- Craig Charles
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. -- Goswami Kriyananda
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. -- Octavia Butler
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. -- Goswami Kriyananda
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
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat. -- Nelson Mandela
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
I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity. -- Ernest Rutherford
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. -- David D. Burns
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. -- Charles Dickens
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz. -- Alexander Cockburn
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. -- Andrew Weil
No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face. -- Bram Stoker
When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure. -- Tara Brach
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
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. -- Desiderius Erasmus
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
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard. -- Ludwig von Mises
I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. -- Rachel Lambert Mellon
Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia. -- Juliana Hatfield
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. -- Walt Whitman
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery. -- Charles M. Schulz
Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
I don't think estates are grim places. -- Andrea Arnold
Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality. -- James Patterson
Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village. -- Richelle Mead
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My life could have been so grim really, really grim. -- Graham Norton
There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. -- Homer
No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better. -- Joy Fielding
How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war! -- Tibullus
Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim. -- Richard C. Armitage
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. -- Richard Sibbes
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought. -- James Joyce
Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile. -- Yakov Smirnoff
[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. -- Yann Martel
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. -- Alexander Pope
All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim. -- Peggy Orenstein
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey! -- Dorothy Day
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection. -- Tom Perrotta
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. -- Gregory Maguire
So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why. -- Lindy Boggs
The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. -- D. H. Lawrence
...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives. -- Simone Elkeles
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. -- Neville Cardus
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves. -- Ravi Zacharias
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. -- Seneca the Younger
In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too. -- Dan Abnett
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town. -- Stanley Donen
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail. -- John Kennedy Toole
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring. -- Rohinton Mistry
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get. -- Bill Nighy
I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy. -- Stephen King
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play. -- Howard Bloom
You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim. -- Bruce Campbell
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. -- Dean Koontz
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! -- Aldous Huxley
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. -- Joseph Conrad
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. -- Emily Dickinson
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. -- John Milton
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality. -- Edmund H. North
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. -- Don Marquis
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. -- Joseph Conrad
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped. -- Julia Quinn
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. -- Winston Churchill
Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure. -- Sally Phillips
We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world. -- Christopher Lee
History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard. -- Jim Murphy
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc â?¦ It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. -- Asger Jorn
War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child. -- Jack Kornfield
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
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. -- Woody Allen
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists. -- Eric Ries
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
I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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. -- Shereen El Feki
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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. -- Kristan Higgins
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
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. -- Robert Graves

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