#got

... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed. ↗

— Pauline Gedge

#beg #creators #forgot #imitators #rubbish

Call it what you like: The Upper Sky, the Unmade, even the Empyrean. Men have given it so many names over the course of history. But those names don't really matter, in the end. It's the unchanging matter. A place without qualities. Neither hot nor cold, wet nor dry. The aether remains while all else shifts and fades...The aether is the opposite of creation. It's always there, invisible but burning bright. It's the pale web that holds the universe together. ↗

— Adam McOmber

#gothic-fiction #the-white-forest #men

Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad. ↗

— Aurelio Voltaire Hernández

#music #music

I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth" -- dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same music and clothes, or at least very similar music and clothes, and go to clubs, go to movies, go to coffee-houses and hold poetry readings and, in general, just have some good harmless fun. Did I look like a dork? Sure, but so did everybody else in the club. We weren't "being different", at least not all of us, we just were different and the point was to stop bitching about being different and just have fun. ↗

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

#goth #youth #movies

Die gesamte den Sinnen wahrnehmbare Welt ist gewissermaßen ein von Gottes Finger geschriebenes Buch, d. h. sie ist geschaffen durch göttliche Kraft, und die einzelnen Geschöpfe sind gewissermaßen Schriftzeichen, nicht nach menschlichem Belieben erfundene, sondern durch göttlichen Entscheid festgelegte, um die Weisheit Gottes im Bereich der unsichtbaren Dinge zu offenbaren. ↗

— Hugo v. St. Viktor

#buch-der-natur #ding #gott #mittelalterliche-semiotik #schriftzeichen

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us. ↗

— Okakura Kakuzo

#egotism #vanity #money

O du unermesslicher Schatz in deiner Fülle! […] Wie weh mir dann nach dir ist, wenn du mich schonen willst, das könnten dir alle Kreaturen nicht wirklich sagen, wenn sie meine Klage vorbringen würden, denn ich leide unmenschliche Not; Der leibliche Tod wäre mir weit willkommener […] Deswegen muss ich eine schwere Krankheit erdulden, denn du hältst mich gebunden, dies Band ist stärker, als ich es bin, Daher kann ich nicht von der Liebe frei werden. Ich rufe nach dir mit gewaltiger Sehnsucht Und kläglicher Stimme, ich warte auf dich, schweren Herzens, ich kann nicht ruhen, ich brenne Unauslöschlich in deiner heißen Liebe […] Ach, Herr, da du mir alles entzogen hast, was ich von dir habe, so laß mir doch aus Gnade jene Gabe, die du jedem Hund von Natur aus verliehen hast, nämlich, daß ich dir getreu bleibe in meiner Not Ohne jedes Aufbegehren. ↗

— Mechthild von Magdeburg

#gottesliebe #liebe #mystik #nature

It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for creating your own private world…yet. Dramatics are fun, an indulgence. ‘You can’t go backward,’ ‘You can’t live in the past,’ they tell you. Why not? ‘You’ve got to put all that behind you and move on to other things,’ they say. Bullshit! These are all expressions of modern disposability. It’s a mediocritizing technique—trying to get rid of what I call ‘past orthodoxies.’ It’s our past that makes us unique, therefore it’s our past that economic interests want to rob from us, so they can sell us a new, improved future. Society now depends on a disposable world—out with the old, in with the new, including relationships. But how we weep and wish we could hold onto those cherished moments forever, to those long-whispered dreams, those tortured nights—how we want to grasp them and stop them from sifting through our fingers. I say, ‘Don’t let it happen. Keep things the way you want them and let the rest of the world be duped. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#mediocrity #nostalgia #past #retro #satanism

If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [...] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist. ↗

— Zakir Naik

#fanaticism #islam #islamism #muslims #osama-bin-laden

Du kennst doch bestimmt den Spruch, dass Gott die Menschen nach seinem Ebenbild erschaffen hat. Guck dich mal um! Wenn man davon ausgeht, dass Gott ein Arschloch ist, ergibt das plötzlich mächtig viel Sinn. ↗

— Marc-Uwe Kling

#gott #religion #religion