Peter Murphy Quotes

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

I think you should be grateful to the English, they built this country and made it civil.

The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

you should never bet money on a boxer who crosses himself before a fight, because any fighter relying on the grace of god is a dead duck.

Women didn't like to face reality, especially his.

Do you really think that one person can be enough for someone?

Gods become myths when people stop believin' in them.

Is "to-read" the new "I'll-call-you?

Let living and love, be one.

The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion ... the costume without the brain.

His voice evoked the ghosts of those who had paid that price and died horribly. They hovered in the shadows muttering vengeance, but he didn't appear to be affected as he walked and talked. He was at home with the living and the dead.

It was great spending the nights with him, but sometimes, she needed a little break from him and the her that she became around him.

My mother always said that I would come to a bad end but I never thought she meant this - writing allegory in literal times.

Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don't you think?