Black Quote by Mervyn Peake

“The tower loomed above them, growing, casting its cold shadow over them all as they drew closer. Tangled ropes of green ivy blanketed one…

— Shona Moyce

“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible…

— Mervyn Peake

“The tower was battered, a relic of a distant past. Yet there was a dignity to it, a grace that belied the pockmarked walls…

— Paul Fraser Collard

Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round…

— Charles Dickens

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

— William Wordsworth

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will…

— Conrad Aiken

Lack of imagination, raising up the tower where they hold our souls to take away the tower.

— Avantasia

“The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete.…

— Anthony Trollope

“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked and longed…

— Mark Twain

“Our room swallowed light whole. Even in summer when sunlight glared through the windows, it was somehow dim inside. Now it was only Easter…

— Mason West

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

— Mark Twain

The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake…

— Mervyn Peake