List Of 50 Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe:
#1 “All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.” -A Dream Within a Dream
#2 “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
#3 “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.” – The Fall of the House of Usher
#4 “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” – The Philosophy of Composition
#5 “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Eleonora
#6 “True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” – The Tell-Tale Heart
#7 “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” – The Tell-Tale Heart
#8 “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult.” – The Tell-Tale Heart
#9 “And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” – The Masque of the Red Death
#10 “But we loved with a love that was more than love.” – Annabel Lee
#11 “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee.” – Annabel Lee
#12 “The boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – The Premature Burial
#13 “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – The Raven
#14 “And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor / Shall be lifted – nevermore!” – The Raven
#15 “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends will call it.” – Marginalia
#16 “Helen, thy beauty is to me like those Nicean barks of yore, / That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, / The weary way-worn wanderer bore / To his own native shore.” – To Helen
#17 “Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, thy Naiad airs have brought me home – to the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome.” – To Helen
#18 “But he grew old — this knight so bold — and o’er his heart a shadow – fell as he found no spot of ground that looked like Eldorado.” – Eldorado
#19 “’Over the Mountains of the Moon, down the Valley of the Shadow,’ ride, boldly ride,’ the shade replied – ‘If you seek for Eldorado!’” – Eldorado
#20 “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.” – The Cask of Amontillado
#21 “I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.” – The Cask of Amontillado
#22 “But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.” – The Black Cat
#23 “And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of Perverseness.” – The Black Cat
#24 “Heaven have her in its sacred keep!” —- The Sleeper
#25 “My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, as it is lasting, so be deep! Soft may the worms about her creep!” – The Sleeper
#26 “But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my Annabel Lee – with a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven coveted her and me.” – Annabel Lee
#27 “And the angels not half so happy in Heaven went envying her and me.” – Annabel Lee
#28 “Ah, broken is the golden bowl! The spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll! A saintly soul floats on the Stygian river!” – Lenore
#29 “For her, most wrong’d of all the dead that ever died so young?” – Lenore
#30 “Let no bell toll! Lest her sweet soul, amid its hallow’d mirth, / should catch the note, as it doth float / up from the damned earth.” — Lenore
#31 “Thou wast that all to me, love, for which my soul did pine – a green isle in the sea, love, – a fountain and a shrine…” – To One in Paradise
#32 “Ah, dream too bright to last! Oh, starry Hope! that didst arise / But to be overcast!” – To One in Paradise
#33 “And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams / Are where thy dark eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams.” – To One in Paradise
#34 “With an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium – the bitter lapse into every-day life – the hideous dropping off of the veil.” – The Fall of the House of Usher
#35 “I was sick – sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me.” – The Pit and the Pendulum
#36 “And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.” – The Pit and the Pendulum
#37 “Even in the grave, all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man.” – The Pit and the Pendulum
#38 “O God! can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save one from the pitiless wave?” – A Dream Within a Dream
#39 “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.” – The Raven
#40 “Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.” – Sonnet-To Science
#41 “Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, / Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?” – Sonnet-To Science
#42 “Hast thous not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me. The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?” — Sonnet — To Science
#43 “But evil things, in robes of sorrow, assailed the monarch’s high estate; (Ah, let us mourn!-for never morrow shall dawn upon him, desolate!)” – The Haunted Palace
#44 “Vast forms that move fantastically to a discordant melody; while, like a ghastly rapid river, through the pale door a hideous throng rush out forever.” – The Haunted Palace
#45 “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night!” – The Bells
#46 “Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells of despair!” – The Bells
#47 “They are neither man nor woman — they are Ghouls!” – The Bells
#48 “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
#49 “All Beauty sleeps! – and lo! where lies Irene, with her Destinies!” – The Sleeper
#50 “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.” – The Raven