Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Age, Silver, Crime

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.39, Bottletree Books LLC

• There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.249, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Strong, Men, Bed

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1207, Ageless Reads

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