Immerse yourself in the eloquent prose of a literary mastermind through Edgar Allan Poe quotes, exploring the enigmatic realms of darkness.
Edgar Allan Poe, a master of macabre and mystery, stands as one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the realm of literature. From the eerie beauty of “The Raven” to the psychological depths of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his works marked by a unique blend of darkness and melancholy.
To celebrate his poetic brilliance that continues to captivate and inspire us to this day, we compiled most enchanting Edgar Allan Poe quotes. His works, characterized by its intricate exploration of the human psyche and the unknown.
Through Edgar Allan Poe quotes, we delve into the hauntingly beautiful world he crafted through his words. Each quote serves as a portal to his enigmatic universe, where emotions are heightened, and the boundaries between reality and imagination blur.
Get ready and join us to pass through the labyrinth of 100 Edgar Allan Poe quotes. Don’t hesitate! Together, we invite you to explore the realms of darkness and light that his words unveil. Enjoy!
Inspirational Edgar Allan Poe quotes
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes on love
Years of love have been forgot / In the hatred of a minute.
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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
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And this maiden she lived with no other thought / Than to love and be loved by me.
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I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well.
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There is something in the unselfish and self–sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Thou wouldst be loved? – then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love – a simple duty.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
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Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes about death
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?
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last / and the fever called ”Living” is conquered at last.
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In death – no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
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And so, all the night–tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling– my darling– my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
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In me didst thou exist–and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
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What we call “death,” is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.
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From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes about dreams
Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
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Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
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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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You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?
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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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A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.
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The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand.
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams.
of the beautiful Annabel Lee
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Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream– that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding.
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes on darkness
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams–– In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed–– But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken–hearted.
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That stealeth ever on the ear of him
Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim,
And sees the darkness coming as a cloud––
Is not its form––its voice––most palpable and loud?
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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you”– here I opened wide the door; – Darkness there, and nothing more.
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Thy soul shall find itself alone ‘Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone– Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy.
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I know not how it was – but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.
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All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.
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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens…
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes on happiness
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge
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No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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It is a happiness to wonder; –– it is a happiness to dream.
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I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy–and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife.
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There is no beauty without some strangeness
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The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight!
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes about life
The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
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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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I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life – except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
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The fever called “living” Is conquer’d at last.
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There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.
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No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.
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Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.
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No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes on insanity
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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… for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification.
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
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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 became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over–acuteness of the sense? ––now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.
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I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness – the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
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And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.
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Wise Edgar Allan Poe quotes
False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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You will observe that the stories told are all about money–seekers, not about money–finders.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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If you run out of ideas follow the road; you’ll get there.
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I have great faith in fools,– self–confidence my friends will call it.
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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Edgar Allan Poe quotes on mystery
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Not hear it? ––yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long ––long ––long ––many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it ––yet I dared not ––oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! ––I dared not ––I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!
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In the Heaven’s above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of ‘Mother.
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Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors … on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma… which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted –– Nevermore!
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Final thoughts
Through Edgar Allan Poe quotes, we find ourselves drawn into a world where beauty and darkness entwine. His words reminding us of the universality of human experiences and the depths of our shared consciousness.
These Edgar Allan Poe quotes continue to beckon us, inviting introspection and contemplation. Whether it from the darkest corners of despair to the heights of ecstatic love. We’ve traversed the corridors of the mind, where sanity and madness dance a delicate tango.
And as we bid farewell to this exploration of Edgar Allan Poe quotes, we carry with us the echoes of his words. Allow these words become a reminder that literature has the power to touch our souls and connect us across time and space.
Hope that you have enjoyed this exploration of Edgar Allan Poe’s quotes. May you finding solace and fascination in the delicate balance between beauty and melancholy that he so masterfully achieved.
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