Quote by Herman Melville

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

— Nicolas Massimi

“Man, attracted by the treasure that the victory over the whale might afford him, has troubled the peace of their immense solitary abodes, violated…

— Bernard-Germain de La Cépède

“Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without…

— Herman Melville

“For example, as you’re reading this paragraph, our whales and dolphins are still dying painful lingering deaths.”

— Steve Irwin

“What if you don't have to be alone in your whale? Like what if that's the point? To find the right person to sit…

— Todd Hasak-Lowy

“What is the most amazing thing about the world? 'Every day creatures die, yet the rest live as if immortal.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“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

“How can one expect a state of abundance to be everlasting?”

— Alfred Huang

“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“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 earth rests on three whales: On the deeds of heroes. On the prayers of believers. On the toasts of drunkards.”

— Anonymous