The Fall of the House of Usher Quotes

“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

“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:fearfuture

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”

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

topic:sadnesssorrow

“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.”

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

topic:feelings