More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow
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.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
