Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Fear

10 quotes

  1. And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view.

  2. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  3. For the love of God Montressor!

  4. That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  5. And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

  6. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

  7. 'Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!' Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'

  8. 'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!'

  9. No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.

  10. I don't believe in ghosts but they have been chasing me my whole life.

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