The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Quotes

“In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

“Such weakness can scarcely be conceived, and to those who have never been similarly situated will, no doubt, appear unnatural;”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

“My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Thrilling Tale by Edgar Allan Poe

“Un instante después mi ser sentíase penetrado de un inmenso deseo de caer, una ansia, una ternura hacia el abismo, una pasión absolutamente indominable.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Las aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym

“the penguin,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so entirely out of the range of human experience, and for this reason so far beyond the limits of human credulity, that I proceed in utter hopelessness of obtaining credence for all that I shall tell, yet confidently trusting in time and progressing science to verify some of the most important and most improbable of my statements.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

“From absolute stupor they appeared to be, all at once, aroused to the highest pitch of excitement, and rushed wildly about, going to and from a certain point on the beach, with the strangest expressions of mingled horror, rage, and intense curiosity depicted on their countenances, and shouting, at the top of their voices, Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Thrilling Tale by Edgar Allan Poe