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Herman Melville Quotes

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling’s father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it Picture Quote #1

Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more Picture Quote #1

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. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him Picture Quote #1

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? Picture Quote #1

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! Picture Quote #1

The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum Picture Quote #1

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It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this Picture Quote #1

I found that but to glean after this man, is better than to be in at the harvest of others Picture Quote #1

His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it Picture Quote #1

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable, was his mildly cadaverous reply Picture Quote #1

With shouts the torrents down the gorges go, and storms are formed behind the storm we feel: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel Picture Quote #1

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with others; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects Picture Quote #1

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A man of true science... Uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; whereas the smatterer in science... Thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things Picture Quote #1

Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space Picture Quote #1

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges Picture Quote #1

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Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling’s father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it (Herman Melville Quotes) Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more (Herman Melville Quotes) 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. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him (Herman Melville Quotes) Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? (Herman Melville Quotes) The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! (Herman Melville Quotes) The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum (Herman Melville Quotes) It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this (Herman Melville Quotes) I found that but to glean after this man, is better than to be in at the harvest of others (Herman Melville Quotes) His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it (Herman Melville Quotes) At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable, was his mildly cadaverous reply (Herman Melville Quotes) With shouts the torrents down the gorges go, and storms are formed behind the storm we feel: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel (Herman Melville Quotes) We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with others; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects (Herman Melville Quotes) A man of true science... Uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; whereas the smatterer in science... Thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things (Herman Melville Quotes) Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space (Herman Melville Quotes) The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges (Herman Melville Quotes)

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