Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Tombstone Quotes, Ravens Quotes

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Tombstone Quotes , Ravens Quotes

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Book Quotes , Appreciate Quotes

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Mind Quotes , Losing Quotes

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Death Quotes , Sleep Quotes

There is no beauty without some strangeness

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Love Quotes , Dream Quotes

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Mind Quotes , Enthusiasm Quotes

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Book Quotes , Ill Will Quotes

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , People Quotes , Able Quotes

O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Believe Quotes , Mean Quotes

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Poetry Quotes , Tone Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Love Quotes , Heart Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Night Quotes , Talking Quotes

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Gone Quotes , Worst Quotes

Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Moon Quotes , Shadow Quotes

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , World Quotes , Folly Quotes

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Gay Quotes , Flames Quotes

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

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!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Home Quotes , Evil Quotes