Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Edgar Allan Poe.
Top 25 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes and Sayings
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Invisible things are the only realities.
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?
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them.
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.
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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