The Fall of the House of Usher Quotes

Not hear it? – yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long – long – long – many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it – yet I dared not – oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! – I dared not – I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute?

I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

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

Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend.