Best Herman Melville Quotes
- People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest… Any
- We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead… Barbarous
- One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own… Acknowledge
- The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting… Carcass
- Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking. Advantage
- In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods. Fashion
- Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. Better
- I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of… Bread
- The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. Ache
- I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one. Any
- And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for… Dear
- Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing… Another Thing
- This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I… Act
- Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. All
- The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Body
- We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do. Become Sad
- Stay true to the dreams of thy youth. Dream
- Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt… All
- It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled… Brought
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real… All
- I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than… Alas
- Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's… All
- I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions. Days
- There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. Goodness
- Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea. Bottom
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