100 Inspirational Quotes By Edgar Allen Poe That Will Help You See The Brighter Side Of Life
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author who lived in the 19th century and is considered to be a pioneer in the field of short stories as well as detective fiction among others. In addition to being one of the most influential writers in the United States during his time, he was also a literary critic and an editor of great repute. Poe attended the University of Virginia but could not complete his education due to a shortage of funds and later on, he failed to become an army cadet at West Point. However, the failure at West Point futher pushed him towards literature and before long he became a celebrated writer. Some of his most notable and successful works include the poem ‘The Raven’ written in 1845, the stories ‘The Tell Tale Heart’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ among others. It is often stated that Edgar Allen Poe’s works were far ahead of its time and hence it went on to influence the literary landscape for many years to come. Poe was also known as a witty and intelligent man who could deliver killing on-liners with ease and here are some of the choicest quotes by him.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Invisible things are the only realities.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
And all I loved, I loved alone.
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
