The Black Cat Quotes

“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”

“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?”

“I knew that in doing so 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.”

“I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.”

“Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good of within me succumbed.”

“I had walled the monster up within the tomb.”

“I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to takes its flight from my body.”

“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?”