Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.” — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers. — Karen Russell 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 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
“Is it possible for one to enter sleep and wander while never waking? And if so, for how long can one survive… — Tiffany Apan Copy Share Image
“We were in a long hall of some sort, very old-looking. High, high ceilings. Gothic in the very definition of the word.… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
On my left forearm, I've got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials 'E' and 'G' for… — Rey Mysterio 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
'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's… — Peter Murphy 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
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
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
“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
“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
“Memories of last night manifested slowly from the back of her brain, every new detail hammering her heart like a war drum:… — Jake Vander-Ark 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
“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
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
“He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
“She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with… — Sheridan Le Fanu 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
“Gray. The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
