Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Goreywas an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 February 1925
CountryUnited States of America
Edward Gorey quotes about
black firsts stopping
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
wrath mad tiny
Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
suicide regret fall
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.
distance twilight party
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.
worry enough god-knows
God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.
may damage possibility
I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.
art mean
Only art means anything.
men heterosexuality-is serious
I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
would-be ifs indescribable
Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
book reading fifty
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.
given relevant considering
I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
hurt nice littles
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
trails inconsequential
I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
evidence contrary knows
I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.