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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.
— Edward Gorey
The Baron told her that only art meant anything.
— Edward Gorey
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
— Edward Gorey
My favorite journey is looking out the window.
— Edward Gorey
I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
— Edward Gorey
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.
— Edward Gorey
Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.
— Edward Gorey
More is happening out there than we are aware of.
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. — Edward Gorey
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. — Edward Gorey
He presented it with a length of string
and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor
to await the arrival of Autumn. — Edward Gorey
and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor
to await the arrival of Autumn. — Edward Gorey
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.
— Edward Gorey
When people are finding meaning in things
beware. — Edward Gorey
beware. — Edward Gorey
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. — Edward Gorey
Nor care at all we're symbiotic,
But I will say at once and twice:
I find it nice. I find it nice. — Edward Gorey
Only art means anything.
— Edward Gorey
He wrote it all down Zealously.
— Edward Gorey
I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
— Edward Gorey
Books. Cats. Life is Good.
— Edward Gorey
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.
— Edward Gorey
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
— Edward Gorey
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.
— Edward Gorey
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
— Edward Gorey
I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
— Edward Gorey
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
— Edward Gorey
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. — Edward Gorey
Which did some damage to his brain,
And after that he did not know
How to pronounce the letter O. — Edward Gorey
My least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
— Edward Gorey
Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion — Edward Gorey
is quite out of fashion — Edward Gorey
I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.
— Edward Gorey
When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.
— Edward Gorey
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
— Edward Gorey
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
— Edward Gorey
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
— Edward Gorey
The Suicide, as she is falling,
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon. — Edward Gorey
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon. — Edward Gorey
I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
— Edward Gorey