Ahab Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

“All mortal greatness is but disease.”

— Herman Melville

“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and attended by…

— Michael Finkel

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

— Harold Bloom

“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance,…

— Eric Jay Dolin

“(A)ll mortal greatness is but disease.”

— Herman Melville

“The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious…

— Michael Oren

“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible;…

— James A. Michener

“To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought…

— Oscar Wilde

We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the…

— Maxine Greene

“Since I have undertaken to manhandle this Leviathan, it behoves me to approve myself omnisciently exhaustive in the enterprise; not overlooking the minutest seminal…

— Herman Melville

“From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee…

— Herman Melville

“A ship doesn't look quite the same from inside, does it? A wise sailor,' Robert said, fanning his arms, 'will one time stand upon…

— Diane Carey