Edward Gorey quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Edward Gorey on Wise Famous Quotes.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.

More is happening out there than we are aware of.
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

He presented it with a length of string
and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor
to await the arrival of Autumn.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

When people are finding meaning in things
beware.

The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.

I should like a parsley sandwich.
To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

The world may think it idiotic,
Nor care at all we're symbiotic,
But I will say at once and twice:
I find it nice. I find it nice.

Only art means anything.

He wrote it all down Zealously.

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Books. Cats. Life is Good.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist ... I am a person who does those things.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Sir U fell down from a speeding train,
Which did some damage to his brain,
And after that he did not know
How to pronounce the letter O.

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

I thought it was going to be different;
It turned out to be(,) just the same.

My least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret?
Gorey: That I don't have one

let's take the time that has been given to us and find that clock.

I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.

When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

The Suicide, as she is falling,
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.