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#1

“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Edgar Alan Poe, Berenice

tags: joy, memory, past, sorrow, yearning

125 likes

#2

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

9149 likes

#3

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8629 likes

#4

“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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

3752 likes

#5

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: adversity, contrast

2133 likes

#6

“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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time

1198 likes

#7

“Invisible things are the only realities.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

tags: humor, satire

1131 likes

#8

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

tags: the-raven

1168 likes

#9

“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: darkness

157 likes

#10

“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm”
― Edgar Allan Poe

103 likes

#11

“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. ”
― edgar allan poe

90 likes

#12

“The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: grief

87 likes

#13

“In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

tags: memory

77 likes

#14

“In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

52 likes

#15

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems

48 likes

#16

“Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

48 likes

#17

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

3589 likes

#18

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11153 likes

#19

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

3897 likes

#20

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

2465 likes

#21

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

2008 likes

#22

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

1401 likes

#23

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow

1563 likes

#24

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

1284 likes

#25

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

tags: beauty, poetry, rhythm

594 likes

#26

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

tags: death, life

528 likes

#27

“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: misquote, poetry

524 likes

#28

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry

505 likes

#29

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

458 likes

#30

“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, hopelessness

450 likes

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