Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
CharityReligionMoralityConscience A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
MadnessIntelligenceScience Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
FearDoubtDreamCourage Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
ExistenceFuturePerspectiveReality It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
MemoryParadoxCognitionIrony If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
LifeDeathBoundariesMystery The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
DreamActionDeterminationProgress The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
HappinessExpectation Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
DaydreamingAwarenessInsight They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Constructive CriticismInspirationAppreciationGuidance The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
ImaginationAnalysisCreativity It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
CommunicationClarityUnderstandingParadox In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
PoetryBeautyCreationRhythm I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
PerfectionExcellenceDiscretionWisdom The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
GreatnessVilificationSelf-Elevation To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
JusticeImpartialityIntegrityResolveCourage In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
InfluenceControlImaginationGroup Dynamics The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
CourageFearAuthenticity That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Pure JoyBeautyElevationMeaningTruth That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
MeritPopularityTalentCreativityEvaluation There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Unselfish LoveSelf SacrificeHumilityIntegrity There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
ElevationTranscendenceDismissal Of ExplanationsOvercoming WeaknessFreedom From Constraints I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
TruthAbundanceAccessibilitySimplicity It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
PunsCreativityTalentJudgment Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
ArtCreativityNatureInterpretation Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
TruthInsightPerception Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
DeathBeautyPoetry The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
PoetryLiteratureLanguageCreativityBasics The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
BeautySensitivityEmotionDevelopmentAesthetic Experience Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
CourageFearRiskResilience I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
ArtElevationSoulValueInspiration I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.