Top 27 Quotes About Gothic Literature: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Gothic Literature

#1. It was a privileged existence, but also a cage, beautifully decorated, but locked tight always.

#2. Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.

David Weinberger

#3. That's tough, Joan," I said, picking up my book. "Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know.

Sylvia Plath

#4. The trees seemed to have eyes that were watching us and reaching out for me. They began to take on the shape of the dead.

Amber Newberry

#5. Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

Lord Kelvin

#6. Not. Your. Fault.
I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.

Tammara Webber

#7. When the moon was high over the moors, Rhineholt became a dark place with long, lonely corridors whose shadows gave breath to many secrets.

Amber Newberry

#8. Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

John Green

#9. 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

#10. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Bette Midler

#11. you will need to figure out what you wish to do with your time." He said in a sickening and patronizing tone. He might as well have been talking to an aimless teenager flailing to launch into the world.

K.J. Kilton

#12. Scar tissue does more than flaunt its strength by chronicling the assaults it has withstood. Scar tissue is new growth. And it is tougher than skin innocent of the blade.

Shelley Jackson

#13. But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

Janet McTeer

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. 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

#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. The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.

Richard Luckhurst

#18. A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

Ray Bradbury

#19. To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

Gail Carriger

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

Hope Mirrlees