#grim

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

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

Finally, a twenty-two old girl was dazzled by the world's brightness and kept her eyes shut for two weeks. When at the end of that time she opened her eyes again, she did not recognize any objects, but, "the more she now directed her gaze upon everything about her, the more it could be seen as an expression of gratification and astonishment overspread her features; she repeatedly exclaimed, 'Oh God! How beautiful! ↗

— Ann Dillard

#pilgrim-at-tinker-creek #beauty

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#benefit #great #great problems #grim #her

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#beauty #cities #gallant #grim #mad

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#purpose #wanderer

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME! ↗

— Adam Gidwitz

#tale-dark-and-grimm #funny

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#had #instead #landed #landing #pilgrim

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

#confront #courage #determination #discipline #grave

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#coal #could #fields #fight #figures

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio. ↗

— Morley Safer

#looking #pilgrims #soon #who