grim's reminders

nine grim reminders — raw, unflinching quotes about love, life and lessons learned. no 🌈s or 🦄s to be found here, only the truth courtesy of your friendly neighborhood grim 

 

“do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life”
~ marcus aurelius

“for all their bravado, for all their posturing, nearly all cower from the most important matter of all; their own mortality”
~ grim

“we’re all excited but we don’t know why maybe it’s ‘cause we’re all gonna die and when we do what’s it all for? you better live now ‘fore the grim reaper come knocking on your door”
~ prince

“is our fear of death really ours? or do we simply regurgitate the gospel of the ancestors as a path of least resistance?”
~ grim

“beware the quiet man. for while others speak, he watches. while others act, he plans. when they finally rest, he strikes. and no one is quieter than the reaper””
~ unknown

“let me make this as simple as possible for those who still don’t get it; the only thing coming to you, the only thing you deserve, the only entitlement owed in this life, is death what you do with your time between now & then is up to you”
~ grim

“i must also have a dark side if i am to be whole”
~ carl jung

"the end of life is certain. what matters is how one meets death with honor or with shame."
~ stoicdoctrine

“do we build mausoleums and monuments to “honor” our dead, or are these grand gestures merely an attempt to buy our way out of guilt and regrets?”
~ grim