--- title: "4 Nervous Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe" description: "4 Nervous quotes by Edgar Allan Poe. Plus more from Edgar Allan Poe and more Nervous sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/085/edgar-allan-poe-315_death_true-nervous-very-very-dreadfully-nervou_103596.jpg" --- > [“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/true-nervous-very-very-dreadfully-nervous-i-had-been-and-am-but-why/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/085/edgar-allan-poe-315_death_true-nervous-very-very-dreadfully-nervou_103596.jpg) > [It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/it-is-more-than-probable-that-i-am-not-understood-but-i-fear-indeed/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21d/edgar-allan-poe-315_adequate_it-is-more-than-probable-that-i-am-not-u_1589068.jpg) > [True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/true-nervous-very-very-nervous-i-had-been-and-am-but-why-will-you-say/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/edgar-allan-poe-315_anxiety_true-nervous-very-very-nervous-i-had-bee_2239285.jpg) > [True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/true-nervous-very-very-dreadfully-nervous-i-had-been-and-am-but-why-3/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/195/edgar-allan-poe-315_destroyed_true-nervous-very-very-dreadfully-nervou_2861095.jpg) ## Other authors on Nervous - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-timothy-leary-91038.jpg) Timothy Leary 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/timothy-leary/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nirmala-srivastava-71652.jpg) Nirmala Srivastava 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/nirmala-srivastava/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-marshall-mcluhan-64589.jpg) Marshall McLuhan 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/marshall-mcluhan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-deepak-chopra-28468.jpg) Deepak Chopra 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/deepak-chopra/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/rick-riordan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernie-sanders-17420.jpg) Bernie Sanders 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/bernie-sanders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-sylvia-plath-88486.jpg) Sylvia Plath 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/sylvia-plath/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marianne-williamson-63745.jpg) Marianne Williamson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/marianne-williamson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-kate-bush-55390.jpg) Kate Bush 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/kate-bush/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/john-green/) - [Garbine Muguruza 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/garbine-muguruza/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-francis-bacon-35434.jpg) Francis Bacon 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/francis-bacon/) ## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/from-childhood-s-hour-i-have-not-been-as-others-were-i-have-not-seen/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/there-is-no-passion-in-nature-so-demoniacally-impatient-as-that-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/to-vilify-a-great-man-is-the-readiest-way-in-which-a-little-man-can/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/a-skillful-literary-artist-has-constructed-a-tale-if-wise-he-has-not/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/for-eyes-we-have-no-models-in-the-remotely-antique/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/during-the-whole-of-a-dull-dark-and-soundless-day-in-the-autumn-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/those-who-dream-by-day-are-cognizant-of-many-things-that-escape-those/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-have-said-that-the-sole-effect-of-my-somewhat-childish-experiment/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-all-my-days-are-trances-and-all-my-nightly-dreams-are-where-thy/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/other-friends-have-flown-before-on-the-morrow-he-will-leave-me-as-my/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/to-the-right-and-left-as-far-as-the-eye-could-reach-there-lay/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/men-die-nightly-in-their-beds-wringing-the-hands-of-ghostly/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-the-raven-never-flitting-still-is-sitting-still-is-sitting-on-the/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-was-forced-to-fall-back-upon-the-unsatisfactory-conclusion-that/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/for-the-moon-never-beams-without-bringing-me-dreams-of-the-beautiful/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nervous/edgar-allan-poe/#itemlist", "name": "4 Nervous Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! 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