105 Quotes by Edward Gorey

The light is fading from the day.The rest is darkness and dismay.

. . . I just don't think humanity is the ultimate end. We're so smug about ourselves, secure about how much we know. Well, I've lived with cats most of my life, so I'm very aware that there's another world going on. . . . it sees everything differently, hears everything differently, and probably thinks differently.

I've decided that, as somebody's pointed out, the older you get, it's very difficult to tell how much younger anyone else is. I mean I can't really tell the difference now between people who are fifteen and people who are thirty-five.

[On his childhood] You know, I would like to think that I was much more poetic and sensitive than anybody else, but I don't think it was true.

[On his childhood] I'm sure mine was happier than I imagine in retrospect. I look back and think, "Oh poetic me," but it simply was not true. I was out playing Kick-the-Can along with everyone else.

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

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.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.