Moby Dick Quotes

“But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale- lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“...keep cool--cucumbers is the word.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, though canst never return!”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick