Gothic Quotes: 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

Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters. — David Byrne

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

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction — James Hogg

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

What the world needs right now ... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare — Iggy Pop

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 king
Just 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

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear? - Valkyrie Cain — Derek Landy

Lucy absently thanked him and at once began to consider which among her gowns would be best suited for a midnight adventure to a gothic castle. — David Liss

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

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. — Glen Duncan

A dark and towering shadow, rising like the phoenix from the ashes ... malevolent ... omnipotent ... The Phantom of the Opera! — Susan Kay

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

The/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines ... — Jack Kerouac

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

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. — Mary Shelley

She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine. — Anonymous

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 and
your 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 book
So 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

Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting. — Junot Diaz

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

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living. — B.B. Wynter

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart. — Barry Eysman

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

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. — James Wyatt

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

I knew I was different from the rest of you plebes. Look how silly and gothic you all look with your skinny, knobbed arms. I'm unique. Neoclassical. — N.D. Wilson

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. — Michael Cox

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

When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose. — Ann Radcliffe

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality. — Novala Takemoto