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Life Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said,…
- In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah!…
- I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no…
- If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
- There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"…
- I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in…
- A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.
- The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.
- I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
- I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
- I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
- Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
- The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on…
- ...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the…
- I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that…
- And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the…
- Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
- Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
- Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts…
- Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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