Death Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Mad. Sad. Bad. Glad. Those were the “check-in” words Dr. Nerves recommended to help me identify if I was feeling anger, grief, shame, or happiness.”

— Renee Shafransky

“what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?—”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”

— Aeschylus

“The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:—ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness—the nausea—…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the disease in our lives at this…

— Joseph O'Neill

“And haven't I told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“they saw how well behaved I was, and decided it meant I could only behave well in the environment of a psychiatric hospital and…

— Jon Ronson

“I rested my forehead against the wall and closed my eyes. It wasn’t just my curiosity, or my fascination with anatomy, or how I…

— Megan Shepherd

“The day was one of those early Spring days that for some mysterious reason, very hard to analyse, are felt to be ill-omened and…

— John Cowper Powys