Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short Gothic horror story published in 1843.
The plot revolves on an unnamed homicidal madman who delivers a narrative of murder and terror.
Let’s jump into the top quotes from The TellTale Heart novel.
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings Quotes
“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“Where breathes the man who has traversed, and successfully, all the wide areas of moral, physical, and mathematical science?” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“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 (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“The deductions are the sole proper ones, and that the suspicion arises inevitably from them as the single result.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime; and the Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
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Quotes from The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“But my disease grew upon me—for what disease is like Alcohol!” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses?” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories.
“Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“I smiled,—for what had I to fear?” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture –a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually –I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
Best The Tell-Tale Heart Quotes
“Men usually grow base by degrees.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded…” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“Villains!’ I shrieked. ‘Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“Without Ligeia I was but as a child groping benighted.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart).
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