Gothic Quotes
156 quotes
"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."
"One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die."
"Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way."
"All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea."
"My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?"
"In starlit nights I saw you,So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world,Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too soon."
"Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness."
"The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!"
"I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens."
"Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to."
"Or do you like being frightened?”Hugh, though generally intelligent, is dense in certain ways; this is one of them.“Why, of course, I like being frightened,” I said. “I want to be made to creep and creep and creep. Fear is the most absorbing and luxurious of emotions. One forgets all else if one is afraid."
"The library could be summed up in three words – enormous, ancient and dusty – extremely dusty. It was exactly like those magnificent libraries you more or less see in every gothic movie. What’s more, I was thankful that I was not an asthmatic, for this was most definitely their form of hell."
"Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live too long."
"(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood."
"Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from a choked river. Deep in a fist of stone a doll's hand wriggles, warm rebellious on the frozen palm. A shadow shifts its length. A spider stirs... And darkness winds between the characters.- Gormenghast"
"In starlit nights I saw you,So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world,Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too"
"I spend my nights thinking the worstAnd telling myself that everything's going to work outI keep kicking myself in the mouthOpening up every cut that should be a scar by now"
"A bad conscience makes a very good ghost."
"Already she knew that an idea could pain him like a bruise. He had grey eyes that showed every thought, and sometimes Charlotte worried that he might be hurt in some way that she would not be able to prevent."
"You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind."
"Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there."
"and the castle in which she dwelt was a prison to her; and sometimes sudden fits of gusty passion would overtake her, for weariness grew to hate, and hate to wrath,"The Serpent's Head"
"Eternity," I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond."
"In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you."
"I'm yours, for eternity!"
"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper."
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."
"At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there."
"There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock."
"Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –"
"Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear."
"To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss."
"I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had."
"You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave"
"Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –"
"Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life..."
"Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life."
"So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –"
"Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making."
"You see the world in colors,I see in Black and Red."
"He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll."
"Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools."
"It was a fact that had become the focus of my entire life, a whisper in my heartbeat, a permanent, insidious presence that punctuated my every breath. I couldn’t escape it, that persistent voice, lingering in the blood pulsing through my veins. It said only one thing, over and over, a repetition of inescapable anguish, the knowledge of a thing that could never be undone.James is dead. James is dead. James is dead. James is dead."
"I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –"
"A good enemy can be better than the best of friend."
"You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself."
"Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely."
"I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –"
"And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?"
"You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?"
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