Goth Quotes — Words From the Dark

From the Music

"I am beauty beyond beauty, ugliness surpassing ugliness, I am love, I am hatred, I am the living and the dead, I am nothing." — Sopor Aeternus

"Where the faces are all grey and the walls are black, nobody comes back." — Sisters of Mercy, Black Planet

"I'm on a plain, I can't complain." — Wait, wrong band. Try: "We fade to grey." — Visage (a touch of goth synth pop)

"I will always love you / I will always kill you." — The Cure, Pornography

"Undead, undead, undead." — Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi's Dead

From Gothic Literature

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important." — Hunter S. Thompson

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." — Jane Austen. Less goth, more gothic adjacent. Try instead: "What is hell but the suffering of being unable to love?" — Fyodor Dostoevsky

On Being Goth

"Goth is not a phase. It is what happens when your aesthetic and your philosophy converge and you realise the darkness was never the problem — it was the solution."

"The best goths are not sad people pretending to be darker than they are. They are people who found that beauty and darkness were never actually opposed."