Anger Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anger Captain Ahab
“Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“He’d been around the island for a while, and I’m sorry to say that being bashed around in Battle and at raids had done… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Asaka: Because I'm a hero of justice. Wataru: Eh... Asaka: AS far as you're concerned, that is.” — Satoru Kannagi Copy Share Image
“If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Hardy har har; dickhead. If you would have listened more closely you would have heard that was in fact, your precious commander doing all… — Kristy Marie Copy Share Image
“He moved now, A tiny jerk of movement, and Elissa saw what she hadn't grasped before. that his fingers showed white and bloodless against he dark blue of his jacket, that his face was so tense that skin seemed to stretch taut over the bones beneath. Then he spoke, and she realized he wasn't calm. He was violently angry. "WHY,… — Imogen Howson Copy Share
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be;… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this… — Herman Melville Copy Share
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when-There she blows!-the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“If I let myself think of it the pain and anger were still fresh, adrenalin racing down my limbs to pool, hot and itchy,… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
My care will be in the heart n not in words My anger will be in Words n not in the Heart — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
