Love Quotes by Herman Melville

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

— Herman Melville

If not against us, nature is not for us.

— Herman Melville

What like a bullet can undeceive!

— Herman Melville

Failure is the true test of greatness

— Herman Melville

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

— Herman Melville

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

— Herman Melville

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

— Herman Melville

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

— Herman Melville

“love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye!”

— Herman Melville

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

— Herman Melville

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

— Herman Melville

We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.

— Herman Melville

“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.”

— Herman Melville

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

— Herman Melville

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

— Herman Melville

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

— Herman Melville

Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man;…

— Herman Melville

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our…

— Herman Melville

“Instinct and study, love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's heart, To wrestle with the angel -- Art.”

— Herman Melville

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and…

— Herman Melville

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering…

— Herman Melville

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of…

— Herman Melville

Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an…

— Herman Melville

The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to…

— Herman Melville

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their…

— Herman Melville

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me;…

— Herman Melville

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the…

— Herman Melville

In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things…

— Herman Melville

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness,…

— Herman Melville

Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther…

— Herman Melville

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our…

— Herman Melville

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me;…

— Herman Melville

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me;…

— Herman Melville

The easiest way of life is the best.

— Herman Melville

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

— Herman Melville

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

— Herman Melville

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

— Herman Melville

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a…

— Herman Melville

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

— Herman Melville

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

— Herman Melville