"In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."

- from "Ligeia"

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."

- from "Silence - A Fable"

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- from "Eleonora"

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."

- from "The Tell-Tale Heart"

"And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."

- from "The Pit and the Pendulum"