Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

This Simian World

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

The Time Traveler's Wife

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

The Time Traveler's Wife

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

The Time Traveler's Wife

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Elle est retrouvée! Quoi? -l'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil.

Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

The Violin of Auschwitz

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

Vanity Fair

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

VALIS

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

VALIS

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

VALIS

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?

VALIS

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems

They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.

The Wise Man's Fear

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

Within a Budding Grove

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Wild Geese

VLADIMIR: Moron! ESTRAGON: Vermin! VLADIMIR: Abortion! ESTRAGON: Morpion! VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat! ESTRAGON: Curate! VLADIMIR: Cretin! ESTRAGON: ( ). Crritic! VLADIMIR: Oh!

Waiting for Godot

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Wild Geese

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

The War Poems

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

A Woman's Walk with God: Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit