Life Quotes by Herman Melville

“Life's a journey that is homeward bound.”

— Herman Melville

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

— Herman Melville

The easiest way of life is the best.

— Herman Melville

We die of too much life.

— Herman Melville

We die, because we live.

— Herman Melville

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

— Herman Melville

“I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?”

— Herman Melville

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

— Herman Melville

“That before living agent, now became the living instrument.”

— Herman Melville

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

— Herman Melville

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

— Herman Melville

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the…

— Herman Melville

“So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her…

— Herman Melville

“Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms…

— Herman Melville

“Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief.”

— Herman Melville

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on…

— Herman Melville

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

— Herman Melville

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great…

— Herman Melville

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe…

— Herman Melville

“one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly…

— Herman Melville

“Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of…

— Herman Melville

When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's…

— Herman Melville

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe…

— Herman Melville

“I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have…

— Herman Melville

“in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In…

— Herman Melville

At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.…

— Herman Melville

“But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the…

— Herman Melville

“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is…

— Herman Melville

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his…

— Herman Melville

“For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras…

— Herman Melville

“In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it…

— Herman Melville

“His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his…

— Herman Melville

“If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may…

— Herman Melville

“I say, White-Jacket, d'ye mind me? there never was a very great man yet who spent all his life inland. A snuff…

— Herman Melville

“Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay…

— Herman Melville

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

— Herman Melville

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life…

— Herman Melville

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

— Herman Melville

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks…

— Herman Melville

“Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And…

— Herman Melville