Best Edgar Allan Poe Quotes with images About Life, Love, and Happiness
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
― Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
― Edgar Allan Poe
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
― Edgar Allan Poe
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
― Edgar Allan Poe
My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence.
― Edgar Allan Poe
There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
― Edgar Allan Poe
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
― Edgar Allan Poe
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
― Edgar Allan Poe
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
― Edgar Allan Poe
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The memory of a past happiness is the anguish of today.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Deep in earth my love is lying/And I must weep alone.
― Edgar Allan Poe
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
― Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
― Edgar Allan Poe
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
― Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Art is to look at not to criticize.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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?
― Edgar Allan Poe
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
― Edgar Allan Poe
And all I loved, I loved alone.
― Edgar Allan Poe
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence…
― Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
― Edgar Allan Poe
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
― Edgar Allan Poe
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
― Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore…
― Edgar Allan Poe
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of songwriting is, I think, one of the few.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
― Edgar Allan Poe
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Invisible things are the only realities.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
― Edgar Allan Poe
To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
― Edgar Allan Poe
It is far more easy to get up than to come down.
― Edgar Allan Poe
He who pleases is of more importance to his fellow man than he who instructs.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
― Edgar Allan Poe
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?
― Edgar Allan Poe
Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.
― Edgar Allan Poe
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
― Edgar Allan Poe
The best things in life make you sweaty.
― Edgar Allan Poe
There is no beauty without some strangeness.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order.
― Edgar Allan Poe
In the Heaven’s above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of ‘Mother.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I smiled,—for what had I to fear?
― Edgar Allan Poe
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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.
― Edgar Allan Poe
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
― Edgar Allan Poe
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — Nevermore!
― Edgar Allan Poe
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence–but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Decorum — that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
― Edgar Allan Poe
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams.
― Edgar Allan Poe
…the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
― Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were – I have not seen As others saw – I could not bring My passions from a common spring.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Love like mine can never be gotten over.
― Edgar Allan Poe
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
― Edgar Allan Poe
For all we live to know is known.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Be nothing which thou art not.
― Edgar Allan Poe
On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before.
― Edgar Allan Poe
It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
― Edgar Allan Poe
A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.
― Edgar Allan Poe
For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.
― Edgar Allan Poe
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
― Edgar Allan Poe
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
― Edgar Allan Poe
If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
― Edgar Allan Poe
A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
― Edgar Allan Poe
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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…
― Edgar Allan Poe
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
― Edgar Allan Poe
The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
― Edgar Allan Poe
Reaching out to her is like drinking from a memory.
― Edgar Allan Poe
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained.
― Edgar Allan Poe
We want characters – characters man – something novel – out of the way. We are wearied with everlasting sameness. Come drink! the wine will brighten your wits.
― Edgar Allan Poe
To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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 ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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