Ahab Quote by Herman Melville

“His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow,…

— Herman Melville

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his…

— Edward Said

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

— Stephen King

“The captain drummed his fingers on the console. He was afraid that he might soon be conducting his own research project to find out…

— Terry Pratchett

“The whale without Ahab is just a whale. A whale with no problems. A stress-free whale." - Julian Blackthorn”

— Cassandra Clare

“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“The life of a whale is short on land.”

— Nicolas Massimi

“Long ago, in a town called Nantucket in the state of Massachusetts, there lived an old, eccentric sea captain named Ahab.  He was a…

— Max James

“Jonah being delivered from the whale.”

— Paul Doherty

“It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the…

— Carol Birch

“Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to…

— Herman Melville

“By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits…

— Herman Melville