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1. “To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, whose character of gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf which reared high up against its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking forever.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Nature, Darkness, Despair, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Depth, Existential Dread
2. “For many miles on either side of the river’s oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads.” Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Beauty, Solitude, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Connection, Poetic Expression
4. “Here the vast bed of waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into frenzied convulsion—heaving, boiling, hissing—gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices, and all whirling and plunging on to the eastward with a rapidity which water never elsewhere assumes except in precipitous descents.” Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Chaos, Intensity, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Response, Existential Reflection
5. “At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross – at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.” Edgar Allan Poe Adventure, Danger, Existential Threat, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Intensity, Poetic Expression
6. “It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass among the tall and the rain fell upon my head – and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.” Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Despair, Transformation, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Depth, Existential Reflection
7. “For many hours the immediate vicinity of the low framework upon which I lay had been literally swarming with rats. They were wild, bold, ravenous – their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited but for motionless on my part to make me their prey. “To what food,” I thought, “have they been accustomed in the well?” Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Survival, Nature, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Tension, Existential Dread
Philosophical Imagery Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, whose character of gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf which reared high up against its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking forever.”
Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Darkness, Despair, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Depth, Existential Dread
2. “For many miles on either side of the river’s oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads.”
Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Beauty, Solitude, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Connection, Poetic Expression
4. “Here the vast bed of waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into frenzied convulsion—heaving, boiling, hissing—gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices, and all whirling and plunging on to the eastward with a rapidity which water never elsewhere assumes except in precipitous descents.”
Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Chaos, Intensity, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Response, Existential Reflection
5. “At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross – at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.”
Edgar Allan Poe Adventure, Danger, Existential Threat, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Intensity, Poetic Expression
6. “It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass among the tall and the rain fell upon my head – and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.”
Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Despair, Transformation, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Depth, Existential Reflection
7. “For many hours the immediate vicinity of the low framework upon which I lay had been literally swarming with rats. They were wild, bold, ravenous – their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited but for motionless on my part to make me their prey. “To what food,” I thought, “have they been accustomed in the well?”
Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Survival, Nature, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Tension, Existential Dread
