Citas Grim

• Siempre que me encuentro con la boca malhumorada; siempre que es un noviembre húmedo y lloviznoso en mi alma; siempre que me encuentro parando involuntariamente delante de los almacenes de ataúdes y yendo a la retaguardia de todos los funerales que me encuentro; y especialmente siempre que mis hipos me dominan de tal manera que se requiere un fuerte principio moral para evitar que salga deliberadamente a la calle y golpee metódicamente los sombreros de la gente - entonces, considero que ya es hora de hacerme a la mar tan pronto como pueda.

  Herman Melville

  Depresión, Fuerte, Manos

  Herman Melville (2002). "Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic", p.13, Spinner Publications

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• Todas las ciudades están locas, pero la locura es galante. Todas las ciudades son bellas, pero la belleza es sombría.

  Christopher Morley

  Beautiful, Cities, Mad

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). "DONDE COMIENZA EL AZUL"

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

  Robert Alton Harris

  Inspirational, Dance, Kings

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• In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Tyrants, Hell

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.313

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• 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

  Effort, Tough, Conscious

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• Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Piano, Keys

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• Sólo mediante el trabajo y el esfuerzo doloroso, mediante la energía sombría y el valor resuelto, avanzamos hacia cosas mejores.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirar, Inspirar, Seguir adelante

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). "Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lecciones del líder más valiente del siglo XX", p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Hair, Touching

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Worry, Despair

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.208

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• Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

  James Patterson

  Reality, Sometimes, Delusion

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• There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

  Homer

  Sorrow, Advantage, Lamentation

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.517, University of Chicago Press

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• I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  London, Grim Reaper, Motorbike

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Economy, Resources, Dine

  Entrevista con Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. 31 de octubre de 2014.

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• Júpiter, no queriendo que la vida del hombre fuera totalmente sombría y lúgubre, le ha concedido muchas más pasiones que razón -se podría calcular la proporción en veinticuatro a uno-. Además, confinó la razón a un estrecho rincón de la cabeza y dejó todo el resto del cuerpo a las pasiones.

  Desiderio Erasmo

  Pasión, Hombres, Sentimientos

  Desiderio Erasmo, Betty Radice (1990). "Elogio de la locura"

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• The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Intelligent, Technology, Light

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). "Contraexplosión [por] Marshall McLuhan".

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• La felicidad no es un clímax brillante tras años de lucha y ansiedad. Es una larga sucesión de pequeñas decisiones simplemente para ser feliz en el momento.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Felicidad, Risa, Lucha

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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

  Pain, Law, Imagination

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). "Soy un mentiroso nato: un léxico de Fellini", Harry N Abrams Inc.

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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• La cruda realidad es que nos preparamos para la guerra como gigantes precoces y para la paz como pigmeos retrasados.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Clever, War

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Reality, Fiction, Strange

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• And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

  Kevin Barry

  Children, Acceptance, Views

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• Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Hands, Trying

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• El honor pertenece a aquellos que nunca abandonan la verdad, incluso cuando las cosas parecen oscuras y sombrías, que lo intentan una y otra vez, que nunca se desaniman por los insultos, la humillación e incluso la derrota.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• El golf no puede jugarse con ira ni con excesos emocionales. La mitad de las pelotas de golf que golpean los aficionados lo hacen, si no con rabia, seguramente con perplejidad, con melancolía, con cinismo o incluso con histeria: todos esos excesos emocionales deben ser contenidos por el profesional. Por eso el equilibrio es uno de los ingredientes esenciales del golf. Los profesionales recorren invariablemente el campo flemáticos, sean cuales sean las emociones que bullen en su interior, con el aspecto sombrío pero plácido y aburrido de los vaqueros, flojos de cuerpo en sus monturas, que llevan dos meses cuidando el mismo rebaño.

  George Plimpton

  Golf, Emotional, Two

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