“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter -… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Exercise care with what it is you do when you hold my heart in your hands. For it is my love that… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a… — Charles Jencks 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“There are prisons made of iron. There are prisons made of velvet. Lucian’s house had no bars, only warmth, taste, money, and… — Valon G Copy Share Image
“These streets belong to us because we decided not to punch the time clock. We decided to see what and f*ck is… — Keith Kekic Copy Share Image
I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The 1890s was perhaps the most Gothic decade ever: 'Dracula,' 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Time Machine,' not to mention… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The boy was there too, stumbling through the living room horde and passing out magic mushrooms from a paper bag. His eyeballs… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
“She will have brown eyes that say everything I ever need to know without her having to speak. She will be beyond… — S.K.N. Hammerstone Copy Share Image
“Trevor climbed once again to the land of the living, naked except for an antique gas mask strapped to his face. As… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
![“[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.” quote by Nina Berberova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/047/nina-berberova-25943_cities_on-new-york-a-city-rose-before-me-it-was_1353178.jpg)
![“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/i/963/jane-austen-39_19th-century_but-are-they-all-horrid-are-you-sure-the_767299.jpg)
