Edgar Allan Poe

"Happiness is the echo of a life well-lived."

"Success is the permission to pursue what matters."

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

"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."

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

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

"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."

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

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

"The scariest moment is just before you start."

"I have an absolute horror of a long preface."

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

"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day."

"I felt all the muscles of my body become rigid, the blood ebb to my heart alone."

"Madness is the only way to remain coherent in chaos."

"The sorrow which I feel is far too deep for tears."

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing."

"We loved with a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven coveted."

"The true genius shakes the world, and leaves no doubt of his passion."

"Science has not yet taught us that it is impossible to dream."

"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve itself."

"I have absolutely no faith in human goodness."

"Every atom of your dust contains a story of eternity."

"The man of genius lives to speak out the thoughts of his time."

"Believe in yourself or no one else will."

"The purpose of existence is the accrual of knowledge."

"I felt as though I was being torn apart by invisible forces."

"Tis the curse of knowledge that it reveals the depths of ignorance."

"Once the soul chooses a master, it cannot reject his commands."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved witchcraft."