Grim

"Privilege is having more time before the same inevitable conclusion."

"Suffering builds character. Mostly I just get bored with all of you."

"Death is the only certainty. Everything else is just guessing."

"Life is short. That's the good news."

"The only certainty in life is death, and taxes, and my company."

"Fool! Your pathetic optimism blinds you to the horrors that await."

"I've seen empires crumble to dust. Your success means nothing in the grand scheme."

"Love is merely a distraction from the inevitable darkness ahead."

"Time waits for no one, though I've certainly tried to bargain with it."

"Your friendships are but temporary alliances against the void."

"Happiness? A fleeting illusion, like morning mist in a cemetery."

"Knowledge is power, but power is ultimately futile against eternity."

"I have walked these realms for centuries. Youth is wasted on the living."

"Hope is the cruelest of all emotions, for it delays acceptance of fate."

"Even courage cannot save one from the inevitable reaper."

"All things change, decay, and crumble into ash."

"Your education will not matter when the void comes calling."

"Truth is often buried beneath layers of comfortable lies."

"Freedom is merely another prison with wider walls."

"Peace? I've seen peace end in bloodshed countless times."

"Nature cares not for your sentimentality. It destroys with equal indifference."

"Art is but humanity's desperate attempt to leave a mark before oblivion."

"Science reveals only how little we truly understand."

"Music cannot mask the silence that awaits us all."

"Faith is comfort for those unprepared to face reality."

"A true leader accepts that all kingdoms eventually fall."

"Work is but slavery with a kinder name."

"Dreams are just nightmares without the honesty."

"Even my sense of humor is dark as midnight in a tomb."

"Beauty fades. All beauty becomes dust."