Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.
Herman Melville
Chase, Perseverance, Obsession, Determination, Victory, Adventure
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Inner Strength | Speech | Adventurous | Merit | Virtue | Pretend Wealth | Love Play | Personal Strength | Human Eye | Work | Mortal | Glass | Introspection | Fear Ignorance | Wealth Assumptions | Silvery Silence | Events And Deeds | Fate’s Humor | Moonlight Waves | Loss | More
More Herman Melville Quotes
“Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.” Herman Melville
Lazarus, Wealth, Poverty, Irony, Social Critique, Morality
Herman Melville Lazarus, Wealth, Poverty, Irony, Social Critique, Morality“There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.” Herman Melville
Divine Halo, Horse Dignity, Divinity, Halo, Horse, Dignity
Herman Melville Divine Halo, Horse Dignity, Divinity, Halo, Horse, Dignity“None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.” Herman Melville
Goodness, Life Philosophy, Morality, True Living, Death, Virtue
Herman Melville Goodness, Life Philosophy, Morality, True Living, Death, Virtue“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.” Herman Melville
Battle Wisdom, Leadership, Hindsight, War, Decision-making, Courage
Herman Melville Battle Wisdom, Leadership, Hindsight, War, Decision-making, Courage“Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.” Herman Melville
Morning Mystery, Plain Truth, Life’s Practicalities, Mystery, Truth, Survival
Herman Melville Morning Mystery, Plain Truth, Life’s Practicalities, Mystery, Truth, Survival“When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.” Herman Melville
Ocean’s Beauty, Tiger Heart, Hidden Danger, Beauty, Danger, Ocean
Herman Melville Ocean’s Beauty, Tiger Heart, Hidden Danger, Beauty, Danger, Ocean“He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen.” Herman Melville
Captain Ahab, God-like Man, Ahab’s Command, Ahab, Leadership, Speech
Herman Melville Captain Ahab, God-like Man, Ahab’s Command, Ahab, Leadership, Speech“I never fancied broiling fowls – though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.” Herman Melville
Broiled Fowl, Culinary Reverence, Food Respect, Fowl, Broiled, Culinary
Herman Melville Broiled Fowl, Culinary Reverence, Food Respect, Fowl, Broiled, Culinary“There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.” Herman Melville
Wisdom Woe, Madness Contrast, Dual Suffering, Woe, Wisdom, Madness
Herman Melville Wisdom Woe, Madness Contrast, Dual Suffering, Woe, Wisdom, Madness“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.” Herman Melville
Human Madness, Animal Folly, Madness Of Man, Humanity, Folly, Madness
Herman Melville Human Madness, Animal Folly, Madness Of Man, Humanity, Folly, Madness“The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent.” Herman Melville
Ship Mate, Nantucket Origin, Quaker Heritage, Ship, Mate, Heritage
Herman Melville Ship Mate, Nantucket Origin, Quaker Heritage, Ship, Mate, Heritage“We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.” Herman Melville
Emotional Struggles, Human Nature, Sadness, Boredom, Life Purpose, Loneliness
Herman Melville Emotional Struggles, Human Nature, Sadness, Boredom, Life Purpose, Loneliness“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.” Herman Melville
Truth, Religion, Satire, Life’s Struggles, Philosophy, Criticism
Herman Melville Truth, Religion, Satire, Life’s Struggles, Philosophy, Criticism“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.” Herman Melville
Fire, Wisdom, Madness, Pain, Irony, Life Lessons
Herman Melville Fire, Wisdom, Madness, Pain, Irony, Life Lessons“Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.” Herman Melville
Fighting Man, Devil Fiend, Soldier, Sailor, Fiend, Staff
Herman Melville Fighting Man, Devil Fiend, Soldier, Sailor, Fiend, Staff“Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship’s decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.” Herman Melville
Sea Horror, Shark Hunger, Battle Imagery, Sharks, Sea, Battle
Herman Melville Sea Horror, Shark Hunger, Battle Imagery, Sharks, Sea, Battle“There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” Herman Melville
Mystery Sea, Hidden Soul, Awful Beauty, Mystery, Sea, Stirring
Herman Melville Mystery Sea, Hidden Soul, Awful Beauty, Mystery, Sea, Stirring“There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.” Herman Melville
Substantial Fare, Life Savor, Immortal Filling, Fare, Life, Balloons
Herman Melville Substantial Fare, Life Savor, Immortal Filling, Fare, Life, Balloons