
Top 14 Edgar Allan Poe Insanity Quotes
#1. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
Shakti Gawain
#2. What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?
Joshua Reynolds
#3. I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
#4. Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.
Lester Bangs
#5. I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.
Edgar Allan Poe
#6. When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.
Kumail Nanjiani
#7. The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
Edgar Allan Poe
#8. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho
#9. Given an approximate knowledge of a system's initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system.
James Gleick
#11. The question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed, of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification.
Edgar Allan Poe
#12. Hard as I fought for it to be otherwise, finally I had to admit it too: without my mother, we weren't what we'd been; we were four people floating separately among the flotsam of our grief, connected by only the thinnest rope.
Cheryl Strayed
#13. Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#14. Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it
Edgar Allan Poe
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