Moby-dick Quotes

In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chap...

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas du...

Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, a...

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which ...

But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the d...

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a bil...

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested appl...

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the...

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this e...

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinar...

When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, al...

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to spea...

It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the S...

Themes of descent often turn on the struggle between the titanic and the demonic within the same per...

Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.