Quote by Herman Melville

“So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell in to the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the…

— Edwidge Danticat

“The ocean's strength does not lie in one drop.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Stephen King

“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

“A wide-brimmed spinster’s hat had been thrown up in the sky. It was gradually falling into the deep ocean.”

— Zoë S. Roy

“So exquisitely slopped that he didn't know if he was on land or at sea.”

— Stephen King

“He was there, he said, to raise just a single hat, but eventually that hat would raise the heavens. He would go forth as…

— Colum McCann

“Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”

— David Mitchell

“On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“To him who begs for a drop, You grant the seas.”

— Umera Ahmed

“I'd be adrift without him, a dinghy in an ocean, but until I faced that lonely expanse, I'd never find land.”

— C.D. Reiss