When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMan’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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