Goth Quotes

• As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Teenager, People, Laughing

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• Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

  Rooney Mara

  Character, Ipods, Black

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• I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

  Christina Hendricks

  Girl, School, White

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• It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

  Clint Catalyst

  Bad Times, Hard

  Clint Catalyst (2000). “Cottonmouth Kisses”, Manic d Press

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• Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.

  Rachel Caine

  Circles, Bunnies, Littles

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.11, Penguin

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• I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Growing Up, Brain, Experience

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• Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!

  Grey DeLisle

  Pregnancy, Land, Play

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• Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Growing Up, Thinking, Past

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• It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

  Kelly Osbourne

  White, Skins, Faces

  "Kelly Osbourne: How she grew from an ugly duckling into a sexy swan - pics" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2010.

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• The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Character, Men, Guitar

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• This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Summer, Jobs, Rocks

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• Goth Juice... The most powerful hairspray known to man. Made from the tears of Robert Smith.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Powerful, Humor

  "Fictional character: Vince Noir". "The Mighty Boosh", www.imdb.com. 2003 - 2007.

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• The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.

  Peter Murphy

  Beautiful, Ideas, Brain

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• I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

  Diane Birch

  Dark, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass!

  Rachel Caine

  Love You, Over You, Looks

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.44, Allison & Busby

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• I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Boys

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• I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

  Fairuza Balk

  Girl, Black, Worship

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• Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.

  Kevin Smith

  Girl, Years, Vampire

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• Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown

  Cherie Priest

  Brown, Steampunk, Happens

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• You're 28, why are you going to goth clubs? Do what I do, sit at home & wait to die. You don't have to kill yourself, you're just waiting.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Rainbow, Vampire

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 07, 2014

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• Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.

  Alan Coren

  Believe, Sweden, Way

  "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

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• I went to London a lot as a young designer because London was a major inspiration, not only for the clothes but the sense of freedom. I remember going to see a stage production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in the mid Eighties and loving the mix of Goth and humor, and in my shows I've always liked to play jokes and have fun.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fun, Inspiration, Remember

  Source: wwd.com

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• When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Study Group, Groups, Defense

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• She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do." pg267 October to Vlad

  Heather Brewer

  Eyebrows, Vampire, Looks

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.162, Penguin

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