Quotes by "Edgar Allan Poe"

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

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 I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

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?

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Invisible things are the only realities.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)