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.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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.

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

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

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

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

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

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.