48 result(s) for Edgar Allan Poe Quotes.
"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
"To observe attentively is to remember distinctly."
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm."
"Ha! laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one."
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"The best things in life make you sweaty."
"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."
"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
"We loved the night and its quiet."
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
"I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it."
"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason."
"It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream."
"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
"We loved each other with a love that was more than love."
"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know."
"I wish I could write as mysterious as a foghorn."
"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
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"There are no words — no paints — to speak or to picture the abyss of mere non-being."
"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."
"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
"Invisible things are the only realities."
"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"
"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
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"That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses."
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"
"There are moments when, even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell."
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends call it."
"Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute."
"It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream."
"To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."
"That it is no slight task to hide a heart by smiles."
