In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
-
-
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
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 making those dreams come true.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Leave my loneliness unbroken.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
EDGAR ALLAN POE