Edward Gorey Quotes

Quotes about:

• Books, Cats, Life is Good.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Cat, Life Is Good

  50 Copy quote

• There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

  Edward Gorey

  Believe, Long, Realizing

  37 Copy quote

• It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

  Edward Gorey

  Dream, People, Scream

  32 Copy quote

• My favorite journey is looking out the window.

  Edward Gorey

  Journey, Window, My Favorite

  17 Copy quote

• My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

  Edward Gorey

  Thinking, World, Life Is

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  23 Copy quote

• If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

  Edward Gorey

  Drawing, Might, Creeps

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  22 Copy quote

• The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Looks, Helpful

  20 Copy quote

• Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

  Edward Gorey

  Wrath, Mad, Tiny

  18 Copy quote

• I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

  Edward Gorey

  Writing, Thinking, Boredom

  19 Copy quote

• God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

  Edward Gorey

  Worry, Enough, God Knows

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  15 Copy quote

• When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

  Edward Gorey

  People, Findings

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  18 Copy quote

• All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

  Edward Gorey

  Important, Going Away, Facts

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  21 Copy quote

• I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

  Edward Gorey

  Artist, Identity, Doe

  11 Copy quote

• What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

  Edward Gorey

  Might, Might Have Been, Has Beens

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  7 Copy quote

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

  Edward Gorey

  Regret, Interviewers

  4 Copy quote

• Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

  Edward Gorey

  Past, Thinking, Iceland

  17 Copy quote

• More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

  Edward Gorey

  Circumstances, Dues, Happenings

  12 Copy quote

• I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

  Edward Gorey

  Given, Relevant, Considering

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  11 Copy quote

• A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.

  Edward Gorey

  Rain, Thinking, Snow

  15 Copy quote

• Only art means anything.

  Edward Gorey

  Art, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

  Edward Gorey

  Children, Thinking, Trying

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

  13 Copy quote

• I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

  Edward Gorey

  Trails, Inconsequential

  12 Copy quote

• Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

  Edward Gorey

  Would Be, Indescribable, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

  Edward Gorey

  Art, Boring, Theory

  11 Copy quote

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

  Edward Gorey

  Sandwiches, Should, Parsley

  12 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin