44 Quotes About Goth

In the world of gothic subculture, your views on life and death are as unique as you are. We all have a different personal philosophy regarding the meaning of life, but there is a common thread that links us all together. A philosophy of understanding and acceptance of both dark and light. In the gothic world, we’ve compiled a list of inspirational, inspiring, and wise goth quotes to share with you.

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Oh, he did look like a deity — the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way. Simona Panova
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I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark. Laure Eve
What happened to you?
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What happened to you?" she asked." Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face. Stacey Kade
I couldn't loose somebody else like that, without even the...
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I couldn't loose somebody else like that, without even the chance to say good-bye. Not again. Not her. Stacey Kade
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Do you have any idea who Erin was kissing?"" Yeah, so we'll brush out teeth really, really thoroughly afterwards, " I said, bumping her nose with mine gently. I wasn't going to let anyone spoil this moment. Stacey Kade
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Amy had always thought she was too vain and selfish to seriously contemplate suicide, also too afraid of pain. She realized now that when she'd thought that, she hadn't understood how painful existence could get. It could get so painful, it turned out, that any other kind of pain began to seem preferable. She felt ridiculous thinking these goth-teenager thoughts, but they were real. Emily Gould
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Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro's tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek's subtle bass line as it worked its way in. After another few seconds Will came in, slow at first, but racing along to match the others' pace. When their combined efforts seemed unable to get any heavier, David jumped into the mix. As the sound got nice and heavy, Bekka began to rock back-and-forth onstage. In front of her, hundreds of metal-lovers began to jump and gyrate to their music. She matched their movements for a moment, enjoying the connection that was being made, before stepping over to the keyboard that had been set up behind her. Sliding her microphone into an attached cradle, she assumed her position and got ready. Right on cue, all the others stopped playing, throwing the auditorium into an abrupt silence. Before the crowd could react, however, Bekka's fingers began to work the keys, issuing a rhythm that was much softer and slower than what had been built up. The audience's violent thrash-dance calmed at that moment and they began to sway in response. Bekka smiled to herself. This is what she lived for. . Nathan Squiers
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You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind. Simona Panova
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I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and disliking you. I felt bad for them briefly, but at least they had each other. In that moment I decided I wouldn't have kids. I don't think I could handle the level of betrayal I'd feel once I realized they weren't interested in me anymore. Sara Taylor
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Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear. Simona Panova
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I always am in a role, lovely — for you, for them — even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role — and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had. Simona Panova
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Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms — just the two of us are still alive — Simona Panova
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Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending — not so much on stage as in real life... Simona Panova
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Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life. Simona Panova
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So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? — Simona Panova
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I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own — Simona Panova
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A good enemy can be better than the best of friend. Simona Panova
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Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely. Simona Panova
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I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable — Simona Panova
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And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me? Simona Panova
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You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want? Simona Panova
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Insane love. Loving insanity. Insanity and love... Simona Panova
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She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do."pg267 October to Vlad Heather Brewer
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The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions. Simona Panova
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And I wasn’t playing a role — I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles... Simona Panova
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Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me. Gray.. Simona Panova
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I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours. Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful... Simona Panova
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The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming... Dead silence. Literally dead. Simona Panova
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The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground. Simona Panova
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Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? Magenta Periwinkle
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The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul." *Chiki101* Chiki101
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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us. Unknown
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If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed. E.a. Bucchianeri
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I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth" -- dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same music and clothes, or at least very similar music and clothes, and go to clubs, go to movies, go to coffee-houses and hold poetry readings and, in general, just have some good harmless fun. Did I look like a dork? Sure, but so did everybody else in the club. We weren't "being different", at least not all of us, we just were different and the point was to stop bitching about being different and just have fun. Unknown
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Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them. Enna Snow
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There's always one sure way of finding out that you're a misfit. When you're eleven years old, and your friends are telling you that they just sneaked into the theater to watch 'Twilight' and that it was "sooooo emotional and sooooo terrifying and soooooo romantic! " - but you've been spending the summer watching 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Don't Look Now' and knowing the lines to all the Alfred Hitchcock films by heart - that's the moment you realize that you're a misfit. Rebecca McNutt
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Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma's insignificant Haloway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn't appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That's color, right?. Gena Showalter
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Vladimir stood next to one of the beams on the back porch of our new home, leaning on his back. He reached in his pocket and grabbed a pack of cigarettes, Marlboro Reds which were his favorites, and he lit one up. He was dressed all in black; black skinny jeans, black studded belt, black tennis shoes, black v neck shirt and he had the hood of his black jacket up over his head. He looked cool and collected, and somewhat villainous.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1) . Nina Jean Slack
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Nice. I like a little desperation ina guy. It builds character. Stacey Kade
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At least I graduated, " he muttered, stabbing the key in and unlocking the door. I sucked in a breath. "I think dying was a little out of my control, thank you very much."" If you say so". He shrugged, but I saw the corner of his mouth turn up into a faint smile. Stacey Kade
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Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with thefloating hearts and severed heads of my medicine. I must now whisper my other friends back too. I’m sad they’re gone…sad and blue. Nicholaus Patnaude
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I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies. Magenta Periwinkle
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Should have taken warning it's just People mourning Running, hiding, lost You can't find, find a place to go, so it's Red skies at night Red skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.. red skies at night, red skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh.. Someone's taking over, and it look like they're aiming right at you.. Someone said we'll be dead by morning.. Someone cries, leaving.. red skies at night, whoa oh-h-h . Unknown