“But as I sat in that bed, the book in my hands, the city outside silent, I had reason to feel as… — Ray Russell Copy Share Image
“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“Yet here apparently on this stifling summer afternoon was the eye of Mr. Flay at the outer keyhole of the Hall of… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The… — James Pratt Copy Share Image
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written. — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball.… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“Some masks are worn to hide weakness. Gabriel had worn that kind for years— a lowered gaze, a tired back, a silence… — Valon G Copy Share Image
“Buttresses were one of the prime structural features of Gothic architecture: by accommodating the thrust of the vaults transferred to them from… — Ross King Copy Share Image
I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“I imagined her poised, a humerus in one hand, a toothbrush in the other, as she gently brushed away the last remnants… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“So Penn just reads, and he just reads for a good long time. By the time he has come to the point… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
“My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Below are some quotations along these lines. Select a quote for your Gothic Myspace layout or contribute one of your own. — Laura Ramirez Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I always am in a role, lovely for you, for them even for myself. Yeah... Even when Im alone, I am still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Musically, I grew up among a lot of gothic rock but I dont like to take on the style of other artists… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
“At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind… — Barrymore Tebbs Copy Share Image
I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel.… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
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![“But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/963/jane-austen-39_19th-century_but-are-they-all-horrid-are-you-sure-the_767299.jpg)
