Quotes About Gothic Fiction

#1. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Ann Radcliffe

#2. At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there.

Angela Carter

#3. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .

I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.

Phyllis H. Moore

#4. It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.

Stella McCartney

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

Bernie Mcgill

#6. Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

John Updike

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

Jaye Frances

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

Aaron A.A. Smith

#9. Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Terry Eagleton

#10. Work is the undoing of nature.

Paul Majkut

#11. From loss breeds new beginnings

Bernadette Marie

#12. A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ...

Margaret Halsey

#13. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

Scott Thompson

#14. The basis of the gothic are secrets that are kept combined with appearances that deceive.

Stephen King

#15. 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

#16. 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.

Angela Carter

#17. Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.

Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.

Anthea Carson

#18. Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.

Paula Heath

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

Christine Fonseca

#20. My paintings are wiser than I am.

Gerhard Richter

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

Michael Cox

#22. 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.

Brian Aldiss

#23. Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Jane Austen

#24. I liked the darkness, the dusty bay window, the view over the grey, muddy harbour and the towering cliffs beyond. How could I think of all that and dislike it, really, when in every nook and cranny I felt Peter's eyes peering out, watching me?

Ava Bloomfield

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

Roddy Doyle

#26. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

#27. 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.

Nicholaus Patnaude

#28. If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#29. I had no lock that could be picked. If anything, I was the landscape behind the door, and even on that day in the ruin, I was still only beginning to comprehend my own flora and fauna.

Adam McOmber

#30. Now that's a ghastly moon, not ghostly.

Anthea Carson

#31. Every hundred years or so a new Grim Anoukie is made; the Parish Priest at the time picks a victim, usually someone who has pissed off the church or simply wouldn't be missed. He then buries them alive in the Virgin Grave; the rest is... history."

Nicky Peacock
"The Virgin Grave

Nicky Peacock

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

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#33. Sometimes we're caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone - a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we'll doubt ourselves, but we can't let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.

Jake Byrne

#34. ~ darkness doesn't have to mean evil.

Mari Adkins

#35. Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

Jeb Bush

#36. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

Steven Wright