Circumstances Quote by Edward Gorey

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

— Edward Gorey

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

— Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

— Edward Gorey

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

— Edward Gorey

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually…

— Edward Gorey

“Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had better say it because it accounts…

— Edward Gorey

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

— Edward Gorey

“How elegant! how choice! how gay! To think one doesn’t have to pay. There is sound of falling tears; It comes from nowhere to…

— Edward Gorey

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

— Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal…

— Edward Gorey

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

— Edward Gorey

“He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.”

— Edward Gorey