💬 Quotes

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."

"The past is a bucket of ashes, a sad waste of time. It's the future that is our burden, our duty, our opportunity."

"You don't get to choose who your parents are, or what kind of childhood you have. But you do get to choose who you become."

"The truth is a hard thing to hold, like a piece of ice in your hand. It slips away, or it burns you, or it melts until there's nothing left."

"Madness is just a different way of seeing the world, a version of reality that the rest of us have agreed to call wrong."

"We are all the sum of our ancestors, the living and the dead, their secrets and their sins carried in our blood like a slow-moving virus."

"Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a decision. It is the refusal to let the past dictate the terms of your future."

"I saw the sun, shorn of his beams, hang in the sky, a vast, dull, red dome, and keep steady for a time, and then sink and disappear."

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change."

"We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what form us."

"Under the new conditions of perfect security, I saw that the upper-world had lost its need for strength and the under-world its need for light."

"It seemed to me that I had happened upon humanity upon the wane. The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the end of the world."

"I have lived such days as no human eye has looked upon before, and I have seen the world spin to its end."

"The Gothic is not a historical period but a persistent, subterranean mode of imagination that arises whenever a culture’s official belief system fails to explain the world."

"We are now living in a period where the boundary between the natural and the supernatural has been completely aestheticized, turning the old ghosts into the new entertainments of digital media."

"The Gothic serves as a necessary safety valve for the modern rationalist mind, allowing us to explore the repressed, the irrational, and the monstrous without needing to fear their literal existence."

"In the contemporary era, the figure of the 'other' has shifted from the external supernatural entity to the internal technological or biological construct, creating a new kind of secularized uncanny."