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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

  Roland Barthes

  Passion, Mean, Thinking

  Mythologies "La Nouvelle Citroen" (1957) (translation by Annette Lavers)

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• I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

  John McGahern

  Printed Word, Church, Poor

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

  Goldwin Smith

  Religious, Age, Church

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Scene, Type

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• Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

  Gianni Agnelli

  War, Cities, Political

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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Character, Literature

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• Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

  Ira Levin

  Magazines, Scene, Wanted

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