The Black Cat Quotes
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The Black Cat Quotes
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“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“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.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or 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 judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“Hay algo en el generoso y abnegado amor de un animal que llega directamente al corazón de aquel que con frecuencia a probado la falsa amistad y la frágil fidelidad del hombre".”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“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?”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. 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?”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“Tal vez sea la propia simplicidad del asunto lo que nos conduce al error.”
― El Gato Negro
― El Gato Negro
“... tan seguro estoy de que mi alma existe como de que la perversidad es uno de los impulsos primordiales del corazón humano, una de las facultades primarias indivisibles, uno de esos sentimientos que dirigen el carácter del hombre.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“creo que la perversidad es uno de los primitivos impulsos del corazón humano, una de esas indivisibles primeras facultades o sentimientos que dirigen el carácter del hombre…”
― El gato negro
― El gato negro