“And it came over him again. Not a thought formulated in words, but as a virulent feeling: I am alone. I am … completely alone.”
[J.A. Lindqvist, Let the Right One In]
Schlagwort: quote
Basement
“He really liked the basement. It was like being in another world, while knowing that the other world was still there outside, above you, if you needed it. But down here it was quiet, and no one came and said anything, did anything to you. Nothing you had to do.”
John Ajvide Lindqvist, ‘Let the Right One in’
Thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness
“When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even then I speak of the noontide that dances upon the hills and of the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating against the stars—and I fain would not have thee hear or see. I would be with night alone.”
[Khalil Gibran: Complete Works; Auszug aus: The Madman]
Staring eyes
“The only constant was his eyes. Staring into them, I saw nothing. No emotion. No humanity. In every photograph, the eyes (…) were dark blanks that revealed nothing. A saying I’d heard long ago came to mind: When you stare into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you.”
[R. Sager: Home Before Dark]
(Fiel mir erst nachträglich ein: kleiner Verweis zum Gedicht Ich faßte deine Hand.)
Cautionary Tale (D. Schweitzer)
„Jack Sprat would eat no fat.
His wife would eat no lean.
Mrs. Sprat died in her late thirties
of a combination of diabetes,
high blood pressure, and heart failure.
Her husband outlived her by almost four decades.
He never remarried.“
{Cautionary Tale by Darrell Schweitzer}
The New Creatures of the Night
“The British streets had always been a breeding ground for international style creating an English civil style war that saw the other youth tribes–Teddy Boys, skinheads, punks, metal heads, rockabillies and psychobillies–fighting pitched battles. Goths though, preferred to dress up, read, think, fuck and dance; these new creatures of the night came alive on the dance floor.”
― from John Robb: “The art of darkness: The history of goth”
Tackle life
„‘Cause that’s the deal we make with the world every time we get out of bed in the morning: Hurt me all you want, but the bastards don’t get to win.”
[Priester Keane in Exorcist, TV-Serie]
Not giving a f*ck about pain
“Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable.”
[Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck]
Biological Needs
“… as if Zach considered sex a biological need on the order of going to the bathroom: you didn’t form an emotional bond with every toilet you took a crap in, and when you were done, you flushed and walked away – feeling better, to be sure, but not really thinking about what you’d just done.”
Poppy Z. Brite, Drawing Blood
the soundtrack of our own failings
“Behind the melancholia there always lies more sorrow than tragedy, more truth than drama. That’s why Goth is the very essence of dignity. (…)
Goth is about those moments of reflection we all have – that nostalgia borne of emotion, the soundtrack of our own failings.”
Mercer, Mick: Hex Files: the goth bible, Kindle 2021 (first publ. 1993)