In the words of Edgar Allan Poe:
I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.
The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.
The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
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