Quote by 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

“The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their hackles and…

— Knut Hamsun

“Whales, porpoises, mermaids and mermen, dead sailors, fishes, crabs, tiny shrimps; the sea is forever full of eyes that watch me. I never fly…

— Mari Strachan

“There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in…

— James M. Cain

“The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose…

— Herman Melville

“A phantom fish, half beaten to death, wriggled in my stomach.”

— Mike Mehalek

“And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what. I wondered if a ship had…

— David Wong

“But at the bottom of the bridge, the seat at the ship’s nose where the pilot usually sat was gone. In its place was…

— Rachel Bach

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry…

— Herman Melville

“Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned…

— William Trevor

“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that snapped the…

— Homer

“How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high Over…

— Hart Crane