Psychology Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

16 Psychology quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Poe’s fascination with the uncanny makes his 16 observations feel like a candle in a haunted hallway. He probes fear, obsession, and the subconscious with a literary flair that’s both unsettling and illuminating.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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“Did there not cross your mind some thought of the physical power of words? Is not every word an impulse on the…

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I remained to much inside my head and ended up losing my mind

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“There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular…

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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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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for…

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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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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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It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability…

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I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among…

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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to…

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The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their…

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“And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did…

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether…

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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether…

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“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of…

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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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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“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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