Goth Quotes - Page 2

• Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress?

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Hair, Long

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.288, Pan Macmillan

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• I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, Heart, Ideas

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• You look so out of your element. (Savitar) I am out of my element. Much like you in a Seattle Goth club. (Acheron) I’m never out of my element, Atlantean. And it must be dire indeed to get you in shorties, and on a board. One day I’m actually going to get you to say ‘Rad four-mill steamer, dude! (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  One Day, Boards, Rad

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.363, Hachette UK

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• I felt like - like I don't know what. Like this wasn't real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire's wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. - Jacob

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Nice, Wife

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• That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Dream, Mean

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

  Zola Jesus

  Thinking, People, Ladders

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• We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.

  Ian Astbury

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• They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

  Mark Gatiss

  Emo, Teenager, Names

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• I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all.

  Demetri Martin

  Lonely, Stupid, Looks

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• I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Rome, Lasts

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• No problem, Goth Boy. First one's free.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Boys, Firsts, Problem

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• I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, Self, Darkness

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• During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

  Joseph Pisani

  Color, Youth, Painting

  Article by Natalie Isenring, Tages Anzeiger, January 24, 2008.

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• The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

  Edward Gibbon

  Brother, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

  Ariel Pink

  Girlfriend, School, Guy

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

  Kenny Hickey

  Effort, Scene, Ends

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• [The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hands, Luxury, Poverty

  Edward Gibbon (1820). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.8

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• I go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around.

  Myles Munroe

  Party, Guy, Looks

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• The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them. Which I totally am.

  Rachel Caine

  Fun, Thinking, Looks

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• Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Kids, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.190, Penguin

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• I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of music that I totally loved. The Cure was my favorite band, even though they're not specifically a goth band. I was listening to everything from The Cure to Depeche Mode to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus and all of that stuff. It was just this release for me. I was able to channel a lot of my loneliness and my feelings of being misunderstood, and I could go into this world where it was okay to be really eccentric.

  Diane Birch

  Loneliness, School, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.” “Maybe you should say that to Michael.” “Not funny, Eve,” Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. “Little bit,” she said.

  Rachel Caine

  Princess, Eyebrows, Littles

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.209, Allison & Busby

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• I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.

  Mark Hoppus

  School, Kids, Rocks

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• In the Sixties, it was mods and rockers, and hippies and casuals, whereas in the early Eighties, there was Goths, punks, mods, skinheads, New Romantics, casuals, metal heads... the streets looked completely different. You go into town now and you can't tell one kid from another - you don't know what they're into. You can sort of tell a skateboard kid because his trousers are half way down his legs, but that's about it. Back then, people wore their hearts on their sleeves. It was a really bold time.

  Shane Meadows

  Hippie, Heart, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't waste a lot of time on profound embarrassment. I have always been somewhat the same person. I can think of maybe particular items of clothing that I think, "Oh God, I used to wear that?" But nothing serious. It's not like for a while I became some sort of goth wannabe. I've always pretty much been me.

  Andy Richter

  Thinking, Profound, Serious

  Source: www.avclub.com

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