"It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."

"Even in the grave, all is not lost."

"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."

"Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces"

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down." [Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]"

"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..."

"That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses."

"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results."

"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind"

"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."

"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."

"And all I loved, I loved alone."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said."

"Invisible things are the only realities."

"And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

"Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone."

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."