Quotes from The Masque of the Red Death

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. It's pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang; and when the minute-hand made the circuit of the face, and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical, but of so peculiar a note and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour, the musicians of the note orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their performance, to harken to the sound and thus the waltzers perforce ceased their evolutions; and there was a brief disconcert of the whole gay company; and, while the chimes of the clock yet rang, it was observes that the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as in confessed revery or meditation”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“En los corazones de los hombres más temerarios hay cuerdas que no se dejan tocar sin emoción. Hasta en los más depravados, en quienes la vida y la muerte son siempre motivo de juego, hay cosas con las que no se puede bromear.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“Allí se derrama una luz más roja a través de los cristales color de sangre, y la oscuridad de las cortinas teñidas de negro es aterradora.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“En los corazones de los hombres más temerarios hay cuerdas que no se dejan tocar sin emoción.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“En el interior existía todo esto, además de la seguridad. Afuera, la «Muerte Roja».”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“En los corazones de los hombres más temerarios hay cuerdas que no se dejan tocar sin emoción. Hasta en los más depravados, en quienes la vida y la muerte son siempre motivo de juego, hay cosas con las que no se puede bromear. Toda”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“Había mucho de lo bello, mucho de lo licencioso, mucho de lo bizarre, algo de lo terrible y no poco de lo que podría haber producido repugnancia.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“Y, entonces, reconocieron la presencia de la «Muerte Roja», Había llegado como un ladrón en la noche, y, uno por uno, cayeron los alegres libertinos por las salas de la orgía, inundados de un rocío sangriento.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

“Y la tiniebla, y la ruina, y la «Muerte Roja» tuvieron sobre todo aquello ilimitado dominio.   F”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death

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