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
thinking might might-have-been
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
nice thinking world
The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.
thinking past iceland
Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.
rain thinking snow
A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.
children thinking trying
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.
thinking world life-is
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
writing thinking boredom
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
american-author
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
almost american-author boring dangerous floor given life open
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
regret interviewers
Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one
circumstances happenings dues
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
fashion passion excess
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
fall way
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
today intention literal
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.