"Berenice" Quotes

I was sick, sick unto death, with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me.

I would have passed it by with a glance, with a smile for its gaudy insipidity; but there seemed to lurk a meaning in its chattering, and a soul in its every motion, that I could not help attending to.

The same thing is seen in the wild animals, whose fear of man is such, that they not only fly from him, but avoid his track as carefully as if it were certain death.

A vague and dreamy horror is enveloping me.

I was dissolved in the agony of longing for the departed.

I am come, Berenice, to unclose the withered leaves within which you have slumbered, and to lift you gently from your false dreams into the realities of life.

The spirit of the hour had thrown an air of the unreal over all.

Out of this chaos of the mind, a world of phantasms, and of a thousand vague and entangled thoughts, there had shaped itself and at length was to be revealed to me the hideous conclusion of my woes.

Shall I not be missed? Who would be there to mourn? No eye would weep for me.

The glare of the moon burst suddenly through that wild and ghastly rift.