Poe Horror Quotes

#1. Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Moliere

#2. Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.

Ryan Reynolds

#3. When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

Donald Hall

#4. You'll be my glass of wine
I'll be your shot of whiskey

Blake Shelton

#5. I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

Robert Englund

#6. 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

#7. People talk and rumors follow," I said.
"Most people claim that only a person possessed of the devil could write such horror."
"And what do you think?"
"You are an angel to me, Eddy, but never bet the devil your head."
"That would make a great title for a story," I observed.

Andrew Barger

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities

Fraser Young

#11. 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

#12. Bellport. A podium.

Nora Ephron

#13. In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

Bashar Al-Assad

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. 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

#16. If I had my phone with me, I could try to call her, but I'm not sure my calling plan covers interdimensional roaming.-Camedon

Emily Hainsworth

#17. It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.

Alan Dean Foster

#18. He clasped his hands to his ears as if he would tear his very brain out!" A sample line from Shadow my psychological/horror compared to Poe!

C.S. Dixon

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

William Friedkin

#21. I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the publishers would not let me. But let the colours you lay on be violent, gorgeous, terrific colours, because my feelings are like that.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. 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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. Lords are lordliest in their wine.

John Milton

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#26. 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

#27. I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Liam Hemsworth

#28. Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Jodi Picoult

#29. 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

#30. A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#31. The mind finds security and strength in religious and political patterns, and this is what gives stamina to the organizations.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#32. I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'

Mario Cuomo

#33. And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.

Richard Wright