First place Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image “We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare First place Firsts Funny Inspirational Love Sad
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We are so afraid to be sad and yet there seems to be nothing that can make us truly happy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
When you've been sad for so long, that eventually, everyone stops caring and lets you sink more and more into the darkness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“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
“But the process should not be confused with science. When tests are used as selections devices, they're not a neutral tool; they become a large factor int he very equation they purport to measure . For one thing, the tests tend to screen out - or repel - those who would upset the correlation. If a man can't get into… — William H. Whyte Copy Share
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
At times you are going to miss people. When that happens, others have to come to the front and show the calibre that brought… — Mike Phelan Copy Share Image
Im never shocked when people let me down nowadays. I just hate the fact that I put myself in a position to be let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had a 90's music party with my Glee family tonight. Helped remind me why I got into music in the first place. — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
“We heard about people who go back to their roots. That is good, but don't get stuck in the root. There is the branch, the leaf, the flower - all reaching toward the immense sky. We are many things. In Israel looking for my "roots", I realized that while I was a Jew, I was also an American, a feminist,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place. — Marie Forleo Copy Share Image
“If you have the ability and the opportunity to help someone, but you don't do anything just because you're scared or it's inconvenient or… — Bree Despain Copy Share Image
Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
“The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It’s forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of factors which… — Matthew S. Williams Copy Share Image
