Gothic Mystery Quotes

#1. She would've made an excellent pirate.

Erica Ridley

#2. Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.

Gwenn Wright

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

Simona Panova

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

George Gordon Byron

#5. Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Kenzo Tange

#6. To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

Nicole Krauss

#7. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe

Gwenn Wright

#8. Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

Russell Kirk

#9. It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Ron Davies

#10. Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

Gwenn Wright

#11. Entering a garden like Bomarzo was like succumbing to a dream. Every detail was intended to produce a specific effect on the mind and body, to excite and soothe the senses like a drug. To awaken the unconscious self.

Linda Lappin

#12. At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order to solve the mystery of their life's adventure.

Barrymore Tebbs

#13. New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

Ellie Kemper

#14. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?

Gwenn Wright

#15. Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.

Erica Ridley

#16. True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Auguste Rodin

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

Simona Panova

#18. A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

Madame De Stael

#19. Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think.

Rebecca Gordon

#20. No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.

Kapil Dev

#21. I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

David Clennon

#22. When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends ... no one could relate to what I was doing. When I'm in L.A., I constantly feel like I'm keeping up with people, and I love that.

Lilly Singh

#23. I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

Jonathan Shapiro