Moby Dick Quotes

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

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:truth

“But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God—so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:truth

“I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:freedom religion belief

“Ignorance is the parent of fear”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:fear ignorance

“he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:fear courage danger

“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:strength beauty

“They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:understanding madness

“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:friendship kindness

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:wisdom madness

“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:religion evil morality

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