Gothic Quotes

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.

If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock.

You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave

Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.

You take all the fun out of life for me, Nik. You know that?" Aiden- Blood Hunger (Deathless Night Series #1)

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.

I cannot ever imagine a time or place in which I will not love you. I am willing to do whatever it takes.

In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.

I'm yours, for eternity!

Eternity, " I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond.

We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it.

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.

Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once upon a time I thought to dream of medicine. Now I dream of medicine by the sea.

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried.

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.~Viktor von Strassenberg

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.

If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".

It isn't fair, it isn't right, " Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Listen, listen with your eyes, and your lips.Listen with your skin, and your blood.Can you hear us, at the edges?

The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows.

Rain turned to ice, and lightning splintered, it splicedthe black sky, it seeped a bright white.All animals they fled, from the sky as it bled, pale death that fell veiling the night.

I shall challenge all authority. Question all who claim dominion over me. I am not a thoughtless being but a man with his own beliefs.

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.

I'm not here to change the world, just your perception of it.

Laying here in my grave..at last.. I am finally alone.

People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning. Shane KP O'Neill - The Gates Of Babylon.

Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.

He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now, for the first time, could he truly appreciate it.

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.

Dead tree branches rattled, the cold wind seethed, it prattled of abominations about to unfold.A lone wolf howled, the full moon it prowled, ready for evils untold.

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.