More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
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.
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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.
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
Invisible things are the only realities.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
