“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
“I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.”
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”
“There is no beauty without some strangeness.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
“Leave my loneliness unbroken.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
“I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.”
“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”
“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”
“Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
“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?”
“Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.”
“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”
“The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”
“Lord help my poor soul.”
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
“The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The best things in life make you sweaty.”
“It is a happiness to wonder; – it is a happiness to dream.”
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”
“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.”
“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
“The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”
“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.”
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
“False hope is nicer than no hope at all.”
“You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.”
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