Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

“But we loved with a love that was more than love”

― Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

topic:love

“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

topic:love

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I...”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

topic:death madness

“The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon...”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

topic:death

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

topic:death darkness

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

topic:truth

“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

topic:fear future

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

topic:heart feelings

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

topic:men

“There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

topic:beauty

1
2
3

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI