Fate Quote by Herman Melville

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;…

— Herman Melville

“Ahab is Ahab”

— Herman Melville

“Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but…

— Herman Melville

“Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and…

— 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 seeking with…

— Herman Melville

“Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up…

— Anonymous

“She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.”

— Stephen King

To-morrow is ah, whose?

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“And now O kings, be ye wise. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss…

— Kouta Hirano

“And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank”

— Joseph Conrad

“I do not know beneath what skies or upon what sea shall be they fate I only know it will be high I only…

— Richard Hovey

“It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.”

— Saadi