Top 189 Gothic Quotes & Sayings

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

Even at the beginning when I arrived at Givenchy, there were certainly people who supported me, but not everyone loved me. They were saying, "Why an Italian who acts Gothic?" Never mind the fact that Italy is one of the main exhibitors of Gothic art in the world. But it was like, "No, Italians should only do sexy!"

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

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

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.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

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.

On my left forearm, I've got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials 'E' and 'G' for my friend, the late Eddie Guerrero.

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

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

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic revival.

I was a happy-go-lucky gothic girl who had an optimistic spirit cos I was suffering a lot at home.

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and futuristic stuff.

One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

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 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.

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain

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

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

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

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

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

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.

Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

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

I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

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

Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

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.

I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

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

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

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

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

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

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.

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.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

I'm a collector of carvings. I love old, wooden, grotesque Gothic pieces, anything that has cherubs on it, satyrs and carved angels.