More - Herman Melville Quotes

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity

Herman Melville

 Eternity

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

Herman Melville

 

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

Herman Melville

 

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

Herman Melville

 Heaven

Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

Herman Melville

 

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

Herman Melville

 

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

Herman Melville

 Rewards

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

Herman Melville

 Madness

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Herman Melville

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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

Herman Melville

 American Novelist