61 Quotations by Herman Melville
- 1. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- 2. A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.
- 3. All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only w ...
- 4. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
- 5. But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- 6. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my pu ...
- 7. Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to ...
- 8. Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table.
- 9. Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vi ...
- 10. For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.
- 11. For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had ...
- 12. For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
- 13. From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wond ...
- 14. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!
- 15. God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking ...
- 16. He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
- 17. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race ...
- 18. He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were m ...
- 19. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
- 20. He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.
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