Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

• And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mistake, Heart, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.83, Prestwick House Inc

• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Taught Us, Intelligence

• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Intelligent, Men, Mad

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

• And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mistake, Madness, Senses

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

• I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Mind, Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.383, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

• He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wine, Feelings, Frogs

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press

• And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
  And Horror the soul of the plot.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Plot, Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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