QUOTES ABOUT LOSING LOVE AND MOVING ON EDGAR ALLAN POE

Here are 25 quotes about losing love and moving on by Edgar Allan Poe:

“And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.” – from “The Raven”

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – from a letter to Maria Clemm

“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. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” – from a letter to George W. Eveleth

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – from “Annabel Lee”

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.” – from “To Helen”

“We loved each other so passionately that when we parted we clung with tears to the doorposts of the room from which we could no longer see each other.” – from a letter to Sarah Elmira Royster

“It is madness for a sheep to talk peace with a wolf.” – from a letter to Thomas Holley Chivers

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” – from “Eldorado”

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” – from a letter to John P. Kennedy

“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends call it.” – from a letter to James R. Lowell

“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.” – from “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – from “The Premature Burial”

“Yet, mad am I not – and very surely do I not dream.” – from “The Tell-Tale Heart” QUOTES FOR MERRY CHRISTMAS WISHES

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” – from a letter to George W. Eveleth

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – from “The Raven”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – from “The Premature Burial”

“Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.” – from “On the Nature of Things”

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.” – from a letter to Maria Clemm

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” – from a letter to George W. Eveleth

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” – from “The Assignation”

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” – from a letter to Thomas Holley Chivers

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” – from “Ligeia”

“I am happy now, in spite of my misery.” – from a letter to Maria Clemm

“I have no faith in human perfectibility.” – from a letter to James R. Lowell

“Deep in earth my love is lying, And I must weep alone.” – from “A Dream Within a Dream”