Top 500 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Grammar is the analysis of language.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

102. “The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

103. “I remained to much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

104. “And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

105. “True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

106. “Blood was its Avatar and its seal.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

107. “Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

108. “Sound loves to revel in a summer night.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

109. “It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

110. “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.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

111. “Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

112. “Most writers – poets in especial – prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy – an ecstatic intuition – and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes...”

— Edgar Allan Poe

113. “There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

114. “Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

115. “Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

116. “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

117. “That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

118. “When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect – they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul – not of intellect, or of heart.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

119. “The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

120. “The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

121. “Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

122. “Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

123. “Leave my loneliness unbroken! – quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

124. “And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

125. “He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

126. “I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

127. “I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

128. “Decorum – that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

129. “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

130. “Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

131. “Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”

— Edgar Allan Poe

132. “If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment...”

— Edgar Allan Poe

133. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

134. “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.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

135. “To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. 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.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

136. “In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

137. “Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...”

— Edgar Allan Poe

138. “It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

139. “Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

140. “I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

141. “I could not love except where Death Was mingling his with Beauty’s breath.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

142. “The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

143. “You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

144. “No one should brave the underworld alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

145. “In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

146. “Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

147. “Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

148. “If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

149. “If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

150. “The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.”

— Edgar Allan Poe