Gothic Quotes

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
Mind Black Power Sense Disservice State Prestige Magic Colorful Sure Because Am Gothic Up Very Often Certain Played Portrayed
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. Pope Benedict XVI
Art God Great Churches Sign Splendid Thus Cathedrals Gothic Truly Manifestation Epiphany Baroque Works Luminous
I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism. Rob Halford
Love Lost Kind Gothic Escapism Get Thing
It's true that my stories seem to deal with the end of the world. I've often been called the high priest of gothic miserablism, which is slightly unfair. Alastair Reynolds
World Unfair Slightly High Seem Priest True Deal Gothic Been End End Of The World Often Stories Which
I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic. Ashley Benson
More Had Edgy Gothic Chic Now Phase
I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross. Avril Lavigne
Black Big Bathroom Totally Cross Castle Couch Kitty Red Velvet Like House Massive Gothic Bedroom Pink Antique Gold Curtains Decorated Hello Medieval
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I found 'The Face Of Another' by Kobo Abe disappointing despite the excellent, gothic premise: a man who's terrible facial scarring leads him to create a perfect mask. Emma Healey
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement. Gail Carriger
Love Me Together Spring Think Both Because Gothic Movement Literature Urban Victorian Fantasy Naturally Things Early
So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. George Saunders
Own Had Makes Gothic May Childhood
What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. Glen Duncan
Films Paranormal Absorb Mainly Come Gothic
Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life. Greg Iles
Life Way Alive Well Genre Gothic Southern Just
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious. Henry Moore
Become Once Once More Has-Been More Weeds Shape Concealed Since Mission Moss Make Sort Surface Gothic Been Get Which Us Sculpture Rid Special European
With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic genre is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a kind of permanently gothic state. Jennifer Egan
Communication Feeling Live State Possibility Kind Emerged About Genre Isolated Permanently Gothic Began Pitting Against Realm Theory Keep Now Present-Day
One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic. Jennifer Egan
Me Science Frankenstein Kind Futuristic Impact Plus Mary Had Science Fiction Shelley Gothic Huge Huge Impact Fiction Which Novel
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control. Joseph Brodsky
Life You Property Reality Matter Evil Control Way Say Daring Physical Direct Contact Bound Come Known Course How Gothic Least Cautious May Mean Social Your Choose Novel Palpable Here
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community. Joyce Carol Oates
Culture Sometimes Community Something House Sort Gothic Often Estate Large Whole Novels Symbolic
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 Try Word Would Something Like Rock Sound Gothic Doing Difference
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. Kenneth Clark
Man Architecture Logical Inventions Could Opera Gothic Been Western Foreseen Any Process Next Strangest
I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint. Lauren Mayberry
Love Character Able Weave Tend Write Never Feel Stuff Like She Narrative Sound Gothic Been American Personal Really Standpoint Her Lewis
I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Mat Kearney
Too Faulkner William Writers Never Like Got Gothic Southern Did Specialized
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
Quality Important Consistent Instance Like Know Cathedral Buildings Gothic Very Should Now
Lita was the perfect blend of pretty and punk, Lucha with a gothic edge and a high-flyer who could take on anyone, anytime, anyplace. She truly was ahead of her time. Natalya Neidhart
Time Punk Edge Pretty Perfect Could Take Blend She Gothic Truly Anyone Anytime Who Her
Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks. Nikki Reed
School Girl Hair Worse High High School More Kitty Because Accepted Gothic Least Celebrated Junior Than Junior High Blue Different Much Hello Actually
People are very surprised when they see me. Here is this crazy Gothic woman, but when they speak to me in person, they realize I'm a nice girl. I love to interact with my fans. Paige
Love Me Crazy Woman People Speak Fans Girl Nice See Gothic Surprised Very Person Interact Realize Nice Girl Here
I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries. Peter Ackroyd
Music Spiritual World Sense Imagination Visionaries Attracted Well Exercise Always Material Gothic Material World Governed Been Sources Interested English Believed
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