Best Edward Gorey Quotes
- I don't think anything might have been. What is, is. Been
- I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a… Anything Else
- Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion Excess
- It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams. Cannot Hear
- There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you. Awfully
- The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book. Book
- More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. Aware
- I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season. Best
- This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no… Art
- ...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting. Acting
- Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and… Bed
- The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I… All
- Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As… Comprehensive
- A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain,… Coming
- There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted… All
- Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path. Coming
- The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. Act
- I have given up considering happiness as relevant. Considering
- If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux… All
- I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. Ascending
- Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never… Almost Never