To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
Herman Melville
Ahab’s Hatred, Revenge, Obsession, Conflict, Determination, Hate
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More Herman Melville Quotes
“There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.” Herman Melville
Uncharitable Suspicion, Misread Wisdom, False Judgment, Suspicion, Wisdom, Judgment
Herman Melville Uncharitable Suspicion, Misread Wisdom, False Judgment, Suspicion, Wisdom, Judgment“Aloft, like a royal czar and king, the sun seemed giving this gentle air to this bold and rolling sea; even as bride to groom. And at the girdling line of the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion – most seen here at the Equator – denoted the fond, throbbing trust, the loving alarms, with which the poor bride gave her bosom away.” Herman Melville
Sun, Nature, Sea, Trust, Love, Symbolism
Herman Melville Sun, Nature, Sea, Trust, Love, Symbolism“Doesn’t the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?” Herman Melville
Life And Death, Evil’s Persistence, Eternal Struggle, Mortality, Good And Evil, Existence
Herman Melville Life And Death, Evil’s Persistence, Eternal Struggle, Mortality, Good And Evil, Existence“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?” Herman Melville
Selfishness, Humanity, Indifference, Life’s Struggles, Death, Irony
Herman Melville Selfishness, Humanity, Indifference, Life’s Struggles, Death, Irony“Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises… the best excellence in the children of any other land.” Herman Melville
American Mediocrity, National Values, Excellence Contrast, America, Mediocrity, Praise
Herman Melville American Mediocrity, National Values, Excellence Contrast, America, Mediocrity, Praise“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 sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true – not.” Herman Melville
Ocean Truth, Mortal Joy, Hidden Darkness, Ocean, Mortal, Joy
Herman Melville Ocean Truth, Mortal Joy, Hidden Darkness, Ocean, Mortal, Joy“It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.” Herman Melville
Cultural Ale, Drinking Effects, Weather Influence, Ale, Drinking, Weather
Herman Melville Cultural Ale, Drinking Effects, Weather Influence, Ale, Drinking, Weather“Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.” Herman Melville
Mortal Identity, Defined Identity, Self Thought, Identity, Self, Thought
Herman Melville Mortal Identity, Defined Identity, Self Thought, Identity, Self, Thought“God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught – nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!” Herman Melville
Incomplete Works, Eternal Draft, Author’s Wish, God, Book, Draught
Herman Melville Incomplete Works, Eternal Draft, Author’s Wish, God, Book, Draught“Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.” Herman Melville
World Secret, Life Burdens, Beauty Depth, World, Life, Beauty
Herman Melville World Secret, Life Burdens, Beauty Depth, World, Life, Beauty“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah’s flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.” Herman Melville
Flood Allegory, Humanity, Mortality, Natural Disasters, Biblical References, Survival
Herman Melville Flood Allegory, Humanity, Mortality, Natural Disasters, Biblical References, Survival“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” Herman Melville
Adventure Spirit, Exploration, Courage, Forbidden Places, Journey, Sailing
Herman Melville Adventure Spirit, Exploration, Courage, Forbidden Places, Journey, Sailing“For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who “believe and tremble” has one.” Herman Melville
Conscience Intelligence, Forehead Comparison, Intelligent Conscience, Intelligence, Conscience, Devils
Herman Melville Conscience Intelligence, Forehead Comparison, Intelligent Conscience, Intelligence, Conscience, Devils“We die of too much life.” Herman Melville
Life Excess, Death Paradox, Living Limits, Life, Death, Paradox
Herman Melville Life Excess, Death Paradox, Living Limits, Life, Death, Paradox“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.” Herman Melville
Schoolmaster Sailor, Stoics Transition, Strong Decoction, Schoolmaster, Stoics, Transition
Herman Melville Schoolmaster Sailor, Stoics Transition, Strong Decoction, Schoolmaster, Stoics, Transition“Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd’s head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd’s eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.” Herman Melville
Woodland Magic, Mountain Spurs, Shepherd’s Vision, Deep, Woodland, Stream
Herman Melville Woodland Magic, Mountain Spurs, Shepherd’s Vision, Deep, Woodland, Stream“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.” Herman Melville
Religious Tolerance, Belief Respect, Peaceful Coexistence, Religion, Tolerance, Peace
Herman Melville Religious Tolerance, Belief Respect, Peaceful Coexistence, Religion, Tolerance, Peace