Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
