Famous Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”

“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.”

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”

“Invisible things are the only realities.”

“Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”

“You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.”

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

Those who are emotionless are often misjudged, for their calm exteriors hide a complexity that many cannot understand.