“Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.” — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase. — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
“Eternity," I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable… — Tima Maria Lacoba Copy Share Image
“She tasted like a Chateau Margaux, perfectly rounded, slightly plumy with an aftertaste of ripe berries.” — Simon Okill Copy Share Image
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with… — Jaye Frances Copy Share Image
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. — John Corry Copy Share Image
“I found serenity in the towers, especially the highest, even in the midst of winter. The crows also enjoyed the lofts, and… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“The land mass on the other side, visible to the eye as a dark sliver on the horizon, would soon acquire its… — Daniel Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“he night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“In the distance, steel-blue mountains loomed heavy on the horizon, their shoulders burdened with the same accursed snow the gods were currently… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“His breathing was heavy, and full of life. He shivered still, his hand finding Katty unsteady and unprepared of what was going… — Keira D. Skye Copy Share Image
I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high.… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
“It was now autumn, and I made up my mind to make, before winter set in, an excursion across Normandy, a country… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
