The quotations of

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer and literary critic

1809–1849

42 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Emotion.

And the angels, all pallid, and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,”
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
The Conqueror Worm (1843)In context
- Life & Death
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we⁠—
Of many far wiser than we⁠—
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Love
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling⁠—my darling⁠—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Life & Death
- Love
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
Eldorado (1849)In context
- Motivation & Goals
The disease had sharpened my senses⁠—not destroyed⁠—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)In context
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)In context
- Ideas
- Thinking
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)In context
- Good & Evil
I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)In context
- Justice
For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)In context
- Life & Death
I know not how it was⁠—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context
- Emotion
In this unnerved⁠—in this pitiable condition⁠—I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, Fear.
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context
- Fear
My brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder⁠—there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters⁠—and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “House of Usher.”
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context

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