Positive Gothic Quotes & Sayings

Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner, I'm almost positive. Perhaps there was even some little stump of an apeman who witnessed prehistoric lightning as it parried with prehistoric blackness in a night without rain, and felt his soul rise and fall at the same time to behold this sublime and terrifying conflict. Perhaps such displays provided inspiration for those very first imaginings that were not born of our daily life of crude survival, who knows? Could this be why all our primal mythologies are Gothic - that is, fearsome, fantastical, and inhuman? — Thomas Ligotti

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct. — Baha'u'llah

As their frenzy grew, so did the storm, as if the hurricane built off their furious energy. Prophet would never look at a hurricane the same way again. — S.E. Jakes

If someone had taken that book out of my hand said, You're too old for this maybe I'd never have believed that someone who looked like me could be in the pages of the book that someone who looked like me had a story. — Jacqueline Woodson

One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things. — Kathleen Rowland

He said that the music - its order and precision - helped him find the patterns in things - the way through the confusion of events and opinions to direction, to order, and beyond, to inspiration. — Geraldine Brooks

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index. — Jasper Fforde

Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit. — Octavia E. Butler

And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom. — Edgar Allan Poe

Is the sun dimmed that gnats do fly in it? — William Shakespeare

Who am I? Who art Thou? Where is the world? — Muhammad Iqbal