61 Quotations by Herman Melville
- 41. Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught tha ...
- 42. People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if ...
- 43. Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little ...
- 44. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap ...
- 45. The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in real ...
- 46. The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as ...
- 47. There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man tak ...
- 48. There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
- 49. There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in ...
- 50. They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
- 51. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be w ...
- 52. To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last br ...
- 53. Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr ...
- 54. Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the in ...
- 55. We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those ...
- 56. We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; ...
- 57. Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and d ...
- 58. When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart t ...
- 59. When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-to ...
- 60. Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the c ...
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