Gothic Quotes

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

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

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

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

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.

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

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

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

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

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.

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

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.]

...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

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.

The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

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I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".

Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.