Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

10:04

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Van egy hely túl életen és halálon, Ahol az égen nincs felhő, és a folyók vize tiszta. Emlékezz rám, és ott rád találok.

47 Ronin

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Animal Dreams

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Animal Dreams

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Ajax

Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?

Ajax

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

All the King's Men

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

All the King's Men

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

All the King's Men

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

Antigone

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Antigone

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Antigone

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.

To Althea, from Prison

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The Age of Reason

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Autobiography of Red

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Victor Hugo

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin