Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAs a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
-
-
I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Leave my loneliness unbroken.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
EDGAR ALLAN POE