"Moby-Dick or, the Whale" Quotes

Call me Ishmael.

From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea.

For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.