Edgar Allan Poe

"I have learned that silence is sometimes the most eloquent response."

"The soul yearns for that which it cannot have."

"I am a collector of melancholy moments."

"The greatest truths are often hidden in plain sight."

"I have learned to love the loneliness that makes me whole."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

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

"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."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness and sees in all deficiency a goad to action."

"I am absolutely certain that I am not mad."

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge."

"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."

"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."

"A man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is unaware of it."

"Surely everything that happens, happens for a reason."

"I have lived enough to satisfy myself that life is a terrible thing, and that we know nothing of futurity."

"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."

"Aptitude found in the minds of all Mankind buried in the brevity of life."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered, weak and weary."

"The struggle against a great evil exhausts us as much as the victory."

"I love the dead weight of it in my hands."

"In this world of ours, the pain of losing someone you care about is inevitable."

"The source of all our sorrows is not the suffering itself, but our resistance to it."

"I felt the fingers of the fiend clutching at my heart."

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."

"The mind of man is capable of anything, because everything is in it."

"To the death—beyond death—if needed."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty."