Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Torture

Quotes about: Torture

• Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Self, Torture, Thirst

• I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Exercise, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.488, Penguin

• There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Imagination, Sublime

  1839 'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.

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