"The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next……" — Herman Melville
"The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass."
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285 Quotes by Herman Melville
Herman Melville has 285 quotes on this site.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any…
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter…
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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More Carcass Quotes
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as…
— Zhuangzi
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Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts. I remember the first time he saw me…
— Maila Nurmi
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In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted…
— William Allen White
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in…
— Jan Neruda
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The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the…
— Aleister Crowley
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark.…
— Nina Cassian
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Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a…
— Rumi
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I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots...
— Alison Moyet
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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can…
— William Hazlitt
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