Gothic Quotes

105 quotes by 96 authors

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. — George Saunders
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked… — Amy Tan
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a… — Guillermo del Toro
I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings. — Caitlin Moran
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from… — Martin Filler
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of… — Oscar Wilde
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car… — Stephen Dobyns
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind. — Louise Rennison
I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how… — Alyson Noel
Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic) — Dave Eggers
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching… — Richard Brautigan
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's… — Chaim Potok
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. — Emily Bronte
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column… — Heinrich Heine
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its… — Gustave Flaubert
...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he… — Gail Carriger

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