Edgar Allan Poe

Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best things in life make you sweaty.

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

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 boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe