Sorrow Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

13 Sorrow quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Poe’s melancholy voice resonates even in a modest selection. Here 13 snippets reveal his haunting perspective on sorrow, perfect for a quick, atmospheric read when the mood calls for it.

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“But the memory of past sorrow--is it not present joy?”

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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly,…

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“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly…

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Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that…

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But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon…

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I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot…

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“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…

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“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I…

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“How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But…

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Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in…

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“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as…

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There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a…

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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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“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with…

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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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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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