Edgar Allan Poe

"How often we forget all time is but the shadow cast by events and deeds, the proof of existences."

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for."

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

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

"The scariest moment is just before you start."

"Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the schoolfees are heavy."

"I have not the slightest wish to see myself in a looking glass."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility."

"The happiest day of my life was when I first became aware that I was a poet."

"I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree tainted with what is commonly called religion."

"I am not very well acquainted with the world."

"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of the purple curtain."

"The only real truth that I know about is that there is a real truth."

"I have no belief in the existence of an external world."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"I am not conscious of having ever done anything to be ashamed of."

"One word from you would be salvation."

"In the greenest of our valleys by good angels tended, once a fair and stately palace."

"I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about."

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

"Perhaps the most interesting information about a man is what he is anxious to hide."

"I saw much in that moment that I should have passed my whole life in the pursuit of understanding."

"It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life."

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

"I felt all the fingers and toes of my body standing on end."

"I am always around. I am everything around you."

"My most daring literary venture lies in the invention of a new kind of psychology."

"The greatest pleasure of a reading person is to come across a book that they think was written especially for them."

"In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove."

"I have nothing to do but to follow blindly."