#grim

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

#bit #black #black family #estate #families

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#america #been #came #crash #farms

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#devotion #does #less #make #pilgrims

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#journey #maps #pilgrims #road #same

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. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#be happy #brilliant #climax #decisions #grim

I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross. ↗

— Emma Watson

#feel #grim #gross #i #i feel

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#caught #cave #creature #experiences #fact

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#behind #grim #like #locals #movie

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#life #time

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

#fiction #grim #i #kind #kindred