Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Goreywas an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 February 1925
CountryUnited States of America
regret interviewers
Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one
circumstances happenings dues
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
fashion passion excess
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
thinking might might-have-been
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
fall way
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
today intention literal
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.
might might-have-been has-beens
What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
nice thinking world
The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.
acting actresses necks
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
light tears bed
Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.
thinking past iceland
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.
black firsts stopping
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
wrath mad tiny
Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
suicide regret fall
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.