Quotes About Goths

#1. What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

Henry Waxman

#2. I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

Robert Graves

#3. Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

Enna Snow

#4. The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell each other it's blood.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born.

Stephen Jenkinson

#6. Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

Charles Stross

#7. And so I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place and an enormous sense of stability.

Ronald Perelman

#8. Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough,

Larry McMurtry

#9. It was the union of Franks, Goths, and Roman provincials against these Asiatics that produced the basis for modern France.

Robert D. Kaplan

#10. I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all.

Demetri Martin

#11. American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be.

Joel Osteen

#13. It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Robert Smith

#14. Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic ... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.

Alan Coren

#15. I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

Teddy Sears

#16. It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Kelly Osbourne

#17. All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.

Michael Crichton

#18. Overrun with Goths wearing sandals and soaking lentils at home, the future I wanted is gone. The future I was promised. Everything I expected. The way everything was supposed to turn out. Happiness and peace and love and comfort.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. Mercia wasn't a little-in-love sort of man. He was mad, dark passion, sweeping emotion, and complete loss of reason, with his gaunt male beauty, his wealth and power, and his haunted past.

Grace Burrowes

#20. [The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

Edward Gibbon

#21. Now there's a sight you don't see every day, huh? Two punked-out Goths throwing a Christmas party for sick children. (Doctor)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. I'd never seen so many Goths in one place. All dark clothes and brooding faces, like a gathering of small thunderclouds.

Simon R. Green

#23. You could tell exactly where the popular kids were sitting, the jocks, the drama kids, the band kids, the goths, the kickers, and the other kids who just floated in the middle of it all were, of course, the outsiders.

Rhiannon Frater

#24. The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion ... the costume without the brain.

Peter Murphy

#25. They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

Mark Gatiss

#26. Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

Peter Diamandis

#27. The Goths didn't destroy Rome, nor did they massacre the population. On the contrary, the Barbarians took particular care to provide safe-houses for civilians and not to harm public buildings.

Terry Jones

#28. Into the center - Queen's Square. This is the heart of Wolverhampton's youth scene - our Left Bank, our Haight-Ashbury, our Soho. To the right, five skaters. To the left, three goths, sitting around the Man On 'Is 'Oss - a statue of a man, on his horse.

Caitlin Moran

#29. I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

Ottessa Moshfegh

#30. I don't have many actor friends.

Shia Labeouf

#31. No pain is unbearable except that of regret.

Jan Cox Speas

#32. Further interrogation revealed that the Pires were a gang of Goths who only came out at night and liked to wear fake fangs and drink each other's blood. I could relate; there wasn't much good on TV anymore, and kids can get bored in the 'burbs.

Jeff Strand