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Top 500 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes (2025 Update)

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Imagination Quotes, Clever Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

2. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Clever Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

3. “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Quotes About Believing, Truth Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I am a writer; Therefore, I am not sane.”

5. “I am a writer; Therefore, I am not sane.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Life Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Creative Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “There is no beauty without some strangeness.”

7. “There is no beauty without some strangeness.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Beauty Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “We loved with a love that was more than love.”

8. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Love Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Passion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

9. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Creative Quotes, Art Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

10. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Intelligence Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Quotes About Heart

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

12. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Quotes About Reality

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Leave my loneliness unbroken.”

13. “Leave my loneliness unbroken.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Emotion Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Sadness Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.”

14. “I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

15. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Poetry Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Beauty Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”

16. “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

17. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Adversity Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

18. “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Emotion Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes, Sadness Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”

19. “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”

20. “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Quotes About Writing, Storytelling Quotes, Quotes About Stories

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

21. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes, Beauty Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

22. “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Sad Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Heartbreak Quotes, Marriage Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

23. “If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”

24. “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “A wise man hears one word and understands two.”

25. “A wise man hears one word and understands two.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.”

26. “Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

27. “The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “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?”

28. “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

Featured in: Depressing Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

29. “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

30. “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Depressing Quotes, Loss Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Depression Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

31. “All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”

32. “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

33. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Communication Quotes, Genius Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”

34. “The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”

35. “The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”

36. “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”

37. “To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The best things in life make you sweaty.”

38. “The best things in life make you sweaty.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Lord help my poor soul.”

39. “Lord help my poor soul.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “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.”

40. “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

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”

41. “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”

42. “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “It is a happiness to wonder; – it is a happiness to dream.”

43. “It is a happiness to wonder; – it is a happiness to dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I have no faith in human perfectability. 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.”

44. “I have no faith in human perfectability. 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

Featured in: Demotivational Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”

45. “The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.”

46. “I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Children, Soulmate Quotes, Heaven Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

47. “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Featured in: Truth Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

48. “That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “False hope is nicer than no hope at all.”

49. “False hope is nicer than no hope at all.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

50. “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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