Quotes by : Herman Melville

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but....

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some....

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms....

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the....

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder....

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak....