Edgar Allan Poe Horror Quotes

#1. Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Alice Englert

#2. The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. I can record auditions from my office in my home.

Jason Marsden

#5. At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream.

Stephen King

#6. In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.

Lloyd Blankfein

#7. To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. I have to be passionate about everything I do.

Ben Elliot

#9. All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony.

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

Ike Turner

#11. I liked the darkness, the dusty bay window, the view over the grey, muddy harbour and the towering cliffs beyond. How could I think of all that and dislike it, really, when in every nook and cranny I felt Peter's eyes peering out, watching me?

Ava Bloomfield

#12. To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.

Edgar Allan Poe

#13. I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

Tim Robbins

#14. I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Was behind in every conceivable way. So the old attack dog started howling through my head as I'd

Mary Karr

#16. The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.

Richard Corliss

#17. I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

Edgar Allan Poe

#18. Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

William Friedkin

#19. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. Steve believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like,

Walter Isaacson

#22. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. Trust Me. I know what I want and it's right in front of me.

Samantha Chase

#24. That motley drama - oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

Jim Bolger

#26. When reason returned with the morning - when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch - I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.

Edgar Allan Poe

#27. Maybe the Zion and Bryce Canyon area. Sedona's like that. Grand Canyon, of course. Glen Canyon. Maybe Escalante and Capitol Reef. Or Arches or Canyonlands.

Catherine Ryan Hyde