Herman Melville Quotes

“when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:hiding self

“Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:love world

“see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:love

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:truth

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:life death age

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at...”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:life

“Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:death

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:death hope faith

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:death danger

“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:truth

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