More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow
Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
And all I loved, I loved alone.
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.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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.
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.
