Edgar Allan Poe

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing absurd.

Edgar Allan Poe

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness – the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

Edgar Allan Poe

I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Edgar Allan Poe

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe