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The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Cat

  • raz Robichauxhas quoted3 years ago
    my hand with his teeth. 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. I took from my waistcoat pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

    Ah, this had frightened me a bit, I feel so sorry for pluto Mostly all black cats remind me of my own that passed in march. 4 months prior to his birthday, his name was Yin I never had a Yang sadly and I wish I had because cats with silky pure white fur are beautiful.

  • YanaLeehas quoted5 years ago
    But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
  • Kelly Linhas quoted6 years ago
    its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed me. By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred.
  • Greyhas quoted2 months ago
    Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? 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?
  • valenciahermesrevihas quotedlast year
    ut to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul.
  • valenciahermesrevihas quotedlast year
    ut to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul
  • Alexa Gracehas quotedlast year
    Evil thoughts became my sole intimates—the darkest and most evil of thoughts.
  • Lera Potapenkohas quoted2 years ago
    , I say, the image of a hideous—of a ghastly thing—of the Gallows
  • Lera Potapenkohas quoted2 years ago
    There was a rope about the animal's neck.
  • Lera Potapenkohas quoted2 years ago
    I approached and saw, as if graven in bas-relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat.
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