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Life Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

41 Life quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe imagines a future where our current lives feel like a dream. He writes about dark nights, melancholy, and the way love can turn into haunting devotion after death. He also hints that despite sorrow, we keep hoping for a brighter, happier tomorrow.

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We love with a love that was more than love.

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The best things in life make you sweaty.

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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

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A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

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The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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Blood- your life depends upon lying close

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where…

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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

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“To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE?”

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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living''…

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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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“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of…

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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be…

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I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which…

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A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the…

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I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of…

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Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his…

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“There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything…

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“Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life, As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Of semblance with reality, which brings To the…

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Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be…

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“Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In…

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“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to…

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit…

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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left…

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“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere;…

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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What…

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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left…

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present…

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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The rain came down upon my head - unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and def and blind.

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“In a night such as is this to me, a man lives-lives a whole century of life-nor would I forgo this rapturous…

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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt…

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There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which…

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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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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the…

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In going under the water I had been obliged to let go my hold upon the rope; and finding that I was…

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The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is…

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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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“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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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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