The Pit and the Pendulum Quotes

“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.”

“I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.”

“In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.”

“I was sick—sick unto death with that long agony.”

“Then silence, and stillness, and night were the universe.”

“The mode and the hour were all that occupied or distracted me.”

“Neither could I forget what I had read of these pits—that the sudden extinction of life formed no part of their most horrible plan.”

“Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind.”

“Free!—I had but escaped death in one form of agony, to be delivered unto worse than death in some other.”

“I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair.”

“For the first time during many hours—or perhaps days—I thought.”