Edgar Allan Poe

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."

"Not all that glitters is gold, nor all that frowns is misfortune."

"The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became in turn not the material of my every-day existence, but in very deed that existence itself."

"I have composed no work of greater internal meaning."

"The love of a friend is measured not by words or deeds, but by sacrifice."

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

"The greatest inventions are born from necessity."

"In madness, there is genius; in sadness, there is wisdom."

"A life of purpose beats a life of mere existence."

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

"The heart wants what it wants—or else it does not care."

"I remain, always, at the threshold of something grand."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Once upon a time, there was a man who could not escape his own mind."

"God does not play dice with the universe, but man does."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"I have absolutely no fear of dying; I fear only a life unlived."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond any doubt."

"The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one."

"To know nothing is the happiest life."

"I found myself more correct in my convictions than in my opinions."

"Some unseen hand reaches through the darkness of the mind."