More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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.
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
