Humans Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

15 Humans quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Poe’s fascination with the mind’s shadows shines through these fifteen lines. They offer a compact taste of his ability to turn ordinary feelings into haunting revelations.

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Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

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No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it…

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How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that…

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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

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The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as…

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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…

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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing…

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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing…

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Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love…

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of…

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There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation…

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There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating…

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of…

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“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

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“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…

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Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…

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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his…

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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…

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“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright…

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