Grim > Grim's Quotes

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
― Scott Turow

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
― Tim Winton, Breath

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
― Mitch Albom

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“No one here gets out alive.”
― Jim Morrison

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
― Lili St. Crow, Jealousy

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick