The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

“I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.”
― Edgar Alan Poe, The Short Tales

“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly;”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere; a sense of suffocation, anxiety, and above all, that terrible state of existence which the nervous experience when the senses are keenly living and awake and meanwhile the powers of thought lie dormant.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories

“Hay algo en el generoso y abnegado amor de un animal que llega directamente al corazón de aquel que con frecuencia ha probado la falsa amistad y la frágil fidelidad del hombre.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Cuentos completos

“pertinacity”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“Si no encontramos un brazo amigo que nos detenga, o si somos incapaces de un repentino esfuerzo para apartarnos lejos del abismo, nos arrojamos a él, nos aniquilamos.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

“verisimilitude,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“the earth, in the sense intended, is not only thirteen, but forty-nine times larger than the moon.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“The moon’s distance from the earth is, in round numbers, 240,000 miles.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“sidereal”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“I reflected that man is the veriest slave of custom, and that many points in the routine of his existence are deemed essentially important, which are only so at all by his having rendered them habitual.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“lenticular”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“nebulosity”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“centrifugal”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“centripetal,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“perihelion,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“eccentricity”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“the center of the visual area being less susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the exterior portions of the retina.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“ballast”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“burgomaster,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“droll”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories

“Pero los bancos no son individuos, sino sociedades, y las sociedades carecen de cuerpos donde se puedan aplicar puntapiés y de almas que mandar al demonio”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe