Gothic Quotes

• It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fall, Rain, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More”, p.173, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Musical, Fancy

  Edgar Allan Poe (1947). “The Pit and the Pendulum. - Wien: Leinmüller 1947. 32 S. kl. 8° (Englische Lesehefte f. Schule u. Haus. 3.)”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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• I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

  Jess C Scott

  People, Envy, Darkness

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.48, jessINK

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Infinity, Principles, Architecture

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.199

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• Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

  Eric Gill

  Real, Bridges, Iron

  Eric Gill, D. Liam O'Huallachain, John Sharpe (2008). “Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity”, Ihs Press

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• I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Hate, Rocks, Differences

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• I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

  Shia LaBeouf

  Girl, Dark, Personality

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

  Madame de Stael

  Fall, Glasses, Light

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• The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

  David Punter

  Passion, Desire, Driven

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• As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

  Nathan Parsons

  Kids, Stories, Haunting

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• Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

  Alan Moore

  Black, Magic, Mind

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• But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

  Jane Austen

  England, Century, Novel

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• You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Attitude, Long, Killing

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• Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

  Louise Rennison

  Mind, Glimpse, Basements

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• 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 return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Ghost Stories, Devil

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• A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Done, Cathedrals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Harvard University Press

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• 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 Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

  Amy Tan

  Kids, Stories, Fairy Tale

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Important, Quality

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• So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

  George Saunders

  Childhood, May

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• These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

  John Ruskin

  Views, Noble, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.18

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• A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.

  Leah Cypess

  Girl, Dark, Southern

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• Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Character, Writing

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

  Maya Angelou

  Fashion, Attitude, Who I Am

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Castles

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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