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- Nov 07, 2020
Gruesome Quotes
Words that don't look away from life's darker moments.
These lines don't soften what's ugly: animal cruelty, a global tragedy witnessed live, even a video-game villain named for the word itself. One quote argues beauty only shines against real darkness, a contrast explored further in Darkness quotes.
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At what price are they willing to go back on years of proclaiming 'socialized medicine' as the slippery slope to 'rationing of health care,' 'death panels' and other claims far too gruesome to mention in polite company?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One afternoon, I was playing this new video game, 'Blood and Guts.' I was controlling Gruesome Gus versus the Crimson Menace, and I had totally waxed the guy. It was this really complex sequence of moves, and I was so excited about conquering the game that I wanted to show it to someone. Unfortunately, the only one home at the time was Mom.
- Be Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
- Background
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
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- Nov 07, 2020