Ifs Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

17 Ifs quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe’s conditional reflections linger in the shadows, each line a whisper of dread and curiosity. These 17 excerpts capture his signature blend of melancholy and macabre.

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

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If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

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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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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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“If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody…

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If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned…

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Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were…

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If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the…

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If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are…

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Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of…

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I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to…

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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear…

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I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the…

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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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There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,…

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If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed…

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“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion…

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

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“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

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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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“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular…

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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…

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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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