Gothic Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Gothic
Gothic Quotes & Sayings
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I'm yours, for eternity!
— Tima Maria Lacoba
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
— Kenneth Clark
I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.
— Tyson Chandler
She tasted like a Chateau Margaux, perfectly rounded, slightly plumy with an aftertaste of ripe berries.
— Simon Okill
We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart.
— Emmanuelle De Maupassant
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
— Hope Mirrlees
Are you baiting me, Miss Dantonville?""I wouldn't dream of it!"
"Oh, I believe you are! That's a dangerous game to play with a vampire. — Tima Maria Lacoba
The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.
— David Punter
When the moon was high over the moors, Rhineholt became a dark place with long, lonely corridors whose shadows gave breath to many secrets.
— Amber Newberry
Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.
— Django Wexler
Is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly.
— William Gibson
Now that's a ghastly moon, not ghostly.
— Anthea Carson
The locust has no kingJust noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
— Marshall McLuhan
All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.
— Jaye Frances
For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.
— Ann Demeulemeester
I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried. — Simona Panova
Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
— Louisa May Alcott
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.
— Adelbert Von Chamisso
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.
— C.N. Faust
You know what this area needs? he says to no one in particular. A thirty-six floor gothic skyscraper.
— Eric Boyd
One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.
— Kathleen Rowland
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
— John McGahern
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
— George Santayana
Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.
— Erica Ridley
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
— Andre Malraux
Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.
— Matthew Gregory Lewis
I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
— Kelly Osbourne
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
— Roddy Doyle
My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
— Simona Panova
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
— Ira Levin
No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.
— Aaron A.A. Smith
My father lost me to the Beast at cards
— Angela Carter
Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over. — William Peter Blatty
It is a fearsome vision I cannot erase.
— Solange Nicole
You Just scared me half to death," I said."You should be thrilled you're halfway there. — Rae Hachton
I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell.
— Rebekah Armusik
Our very existence refuses your laws andyour science, your religions and your
philosophies. — B.E. Scully
I eased back into the throne. Damn comfortable: swan-down and silk. Kinging it is pain in the arse enough without one of those gothic chairs.
— Mark Lawrence
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.
— Richard Rogers
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
— Nathan Parsons
The basis of the gothic are secrets that are kept combined with appearances that deceive.
— Stephen King
Don't get all gothic and emo on me now. - Tory
— Matthew Leeth
Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Wish my life were inside a bookSo I could turn to the ending,
See if it is a love story
Or a gothic disaster. — Stasia Ward Kehoe
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
— Shia Labeouf
You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.
— Poppy Z. Brite
I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.
— Oscar Wilde
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
— Frank Wedekind
Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone,Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom. — Clark Ashton Smith
I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
— Gail Carriger
This daemon loves men whose marriage beds have grown cold, so she can set them ablaze.
— Solange Nicole
Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,And night devour its flaming hues alway? — Clark Ashton Smith
Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.
— Paula Heath
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
— Andrea Barrett
She would've made an excellent pirate.
— Erica Ridley
If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.
— Simona Panova
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
— Jimmy Buffett
Good Lord. His appearance was nearly a caricature of the dark and brooding hero from every gothic novel.
— Tarun Shanker
No need to fret, pretty one. I hoped to catch you alone here
— Sai Marie Johnson
Hell could be like this ... It could be cold enough to sear the skin from your bones.
— Robert Goolrick
It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.
— Clint Catalyst
I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
— Caitlin Moran
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
~ darkness doesn't have to mean evil.
— Mari Adkins
The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
I took a deep, deep breath and held it in my core; kept it close behind my protruding, fleshless ribs. I swallowed it whole. I was home.
— Ava Bloomfield
Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
— Randy Thornhorn
Perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them ...
— Nancy Holder
We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it.
— S.K.N. Hammerstone
I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all.
— Demetri Martin
There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.
— Rae Hachton
In the summer evenings, fireflies swarm around the tarn, making something hateful almost beautiful.
— Bethany Griffin
(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
— Andre Breton
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
— Heinrich Heine
I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.
— Richard Fleeshman
The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.
— Nicholaus Patnaude
Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.
— George Gordon Byron
The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows.
— Bernice M Murphy Dr
I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.
— Novala Takemoto