The Imp of the Perverse Quotes

“There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse

“To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse

“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse

“There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse

“I well, too well, understood that to think, in my situation, was to be lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse

“Death by the visitation of God.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse

“That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing [...] is indulged.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse

“Si no hay junto a nosotros un brazo amigo que nos detenga, o somos incapaces de alejarnos, nos arrojamos, nos aniquilamos en el abismo.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, El demonio de la perversidad