Gothic Quotes

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

— Ashley Benson

Look what faith has done to you.

— Malcolm Ribeiro

“To be a woman is fated vehemently morbid.”

— Avah Marie

“Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.”

— Simona Panova

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth

— Anonymous

Requiem for this unrequited love

— Malcolm Ribeiro

You mess with the devil, you fall into temptation!

— Malcolm Ribeiro

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

— Nathan Parsons

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

— Jess C Scott

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –”

— Simona Panova

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

— Greg Iles

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

— Camille Paglia

“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.”

— Michael Cox

“But as I sat in that bed, the book in my hands, the city outside silent, I had reason to feel as…

— Ray Russell

“The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be…

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught up in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.…

— Echo and the Bunnymen

“Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –”

— Simona Panova

...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep…

— Gail Carriger

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

— Mat Kearney

“He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now for the first time could he truly appreciate it.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a…

— A. Hunter Dupree

Let's say punk rock was described to you as 'three chords of rock music played roughly.' Would that be sufficient? If you…

— Novala Takemoto

My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been forgiven. He was a lot…

— Hazel Butler

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give…

— Madame de Stael

“The Aunts put their arms about one another so that their faces were cheek to cheek, and from this doublehead they gazed…

— Mervyn Peake

The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So…

— Heinrich Heine

“Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“So it was that the Red Tower put into production its new, more terrible and perplexing, line of unique novelty items. Among…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images with vague messages and symbols that keep you guessing…

— Mindy Fordham

“When she first saw him, she took him for a ghost. His jet-black hair fluttered in the breeze as he walked, letting…

— Amanda M. Lyons

“He knew what he had found here, a precious treasure that had remained hidden away for so long. To the right man,…

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“It seemed for a moment as if something was there, loitering between the knurled and towering cherry trees, a flash of a…

— Hazel Butler

There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious…

— Leslie Fiedler

“Trevor could almost see the invisible gas leaking from the broken furnace, billowing around his body, wafting in his wake from the…

— Jake Vander-Ark

“The castle is situated at the terminus of a long and upward-winding mountain road. It presents a somewhat forbidding aspect to the…

— Ray Russell