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.
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.
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night
Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow
Art is to look at not to criticize.
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
There is no beauty without some strangeness
