Strange Quotes by Herman Melville

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

— Herman Melville

“Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer”

— Herman Melville

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing…

— 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

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the…

— Herman Melville

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no…

— Herman Melville

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and…

— Herman Melville

“Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.”

— Herman Melville

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of…

— Herman Melville

The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something…

— Herman Melville

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden…

— Herman Melville

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and…

— Herman Melville