Black cat By Edgar Allan Poe, Quotes

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

edgar allan poe, the black cat

"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me…my original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body’

"to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

law quote

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

Disaster and atrocity

“This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure."

Pleasure

‘hung it because I knew that it had loved me…hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin’

The murder

‘its one eye filled with fire, its wide open mouth the color of blood, sat the cat, crying out its revenge!’

the revenge

I became less loving in my manner; I became quick to anger; I forgot how to smile and laugh

The narrators change of character