Castaway Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image “Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Castaway Inspirational Love Please Woe
I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“Instead of working so hard to please him, work harder to please yourself…because ultimately, this is what will truly please him.” — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at… — Vance Havner Copy Share
A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself;… — Prince Augustus William of Prussia Copy Share Image
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts… — Herman Melville Copy Share
I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
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