Edward Gorey Quotes

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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.

Edward Gorey
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Edward Gorey
The babe with a cry brief and dismal,
Fell into the water baptismal;
Ere they gathered its plight,
It had sunk out of sight,
For the depth of the font was abysmal.

Edward Gorey
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.

Edward Gorey
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.

Edward Gorey
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.

Edward Gorey
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Edward Gorey
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Edward Gorey
My least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

Edward Gorey
What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Edward Gorey
I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

Edward Gorey
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.

Edward Gorey
God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Edward Gorey