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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e508ec | Queequeg estaba convencido de que si un hombre estaba decidido a vivir, la enfermedad nunca seria capaz de matarlo y que lo unico que podia acabar con su vida era una ballena, una tempestad o cualquier otra fuerza violenta, destructiva e inmanejable de esa naturaleza. | Herman Melville | ||
| 8ac7f98 | Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air! | Herman Melville | ||
| b26f129 | And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing. | Herman Melville | ||
| 94a356b | So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness-- Give it up, Sub-Subs! For .. | Herman Melville | ||
| ed49ba8 | So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have "broken his digester." | Herman Melville | ||
| c585b52 | For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merrymakings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all. | Herman Melville | ||
| 2c27588 | How I snuffed that Tartar air!--how I spurned that turnpike earth!--that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records. | moby-dick | Herman Melville | |
| 69e36e1 | loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses | Herman Melville | ||
| 89fe474 | Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and yo.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 4039370 | What could be more full of meaning?--for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. | Herman Melville | ||
| 951d714 | I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. | Herman Melville | ||
| 4f4b106 | There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. | Herman Melville | ||
| 37440a2 | if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned. | Herman Melville | ||
| 8eabeca | Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free. | Herman Melville | ||
| d01e3dc | In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti. | Herman Melville | ||
| c6cc155 | truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. | Herman Melville | ||
| 89c87e4 | As minhas primeiras emocoes tinham sido a melancolia mais pura e a compaixao mais sincera, mas na mesma proporcao em que o desamparo de Bartleby crescia na minha fantasia, aquela melancolia se transformava em medo, e a compaixao, em repulsa. E tao verdadeiro e ao mesmo tempo tao terrivel o fato de que, ao vermos ou presenciarmos a miseria, os nossos melhores sentimentos sao despertados ate um cer to ponto; mas, em certos casos especiais, na.. | solitude niilismo | Herman Melville | |
| 2cea6c7 | His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg. | epic obsession | Herman Melville | |
| 7df1ea0 | I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow | Herman Melville | ||
| 2897c7d | Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee! | Herman Melville | ||
| d3d96af | What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart. | Herman Melville | ||
| 3eaaf95 | no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. | Herman Melville | ||
| f7202a1 | Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. | Herman Melville | ||
| 2d7c9f2 | What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun mov.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 9a360b4 | Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I--being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude--how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whaleships' standing orders, "Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time." | Herman Melville | ||
| ffbf602 | hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. | Herman Melville | ||
| c37acc7 | Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.--Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it." | self-improvement knowledge | Herman Melville | |
| c50bb88 | Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy--start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool--cucumbers is the word--easy, easy--only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys--that's all. Start her! | moby-dick | Herman Melville | |
| ea39f6b | But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way. | Herman Melville | ||
| 6e64a71 | There is mystery in everything," Herman whispered, almost to himself. "And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry." | moby-dick | Mark Beauregard | |
| f3cf7a1 | The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights. | Herman Melville | ||
| e21feaa | And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists. | Herman Melville | ||
| 56f37d4 | Se questo mondo fosse un piano infinito e navigando a oriente noi potessimo sempre raggiungere nuove distanze e scoprire cose piu dolci e nuove di tutte le Cicladi o le Isole del Re Salomone, allora il viaggio conterrebbe una promessa. Ma, nell'inseguire quei lontani misteri di cui sogniamo, o nella caccia tormentosa di quel fantasma demoniaco che prima o poi nuota dinanzi a tutti i cuori umani, nella caccia di tali cose intorno a questo gl.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 20cc6db | All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 22a98f2 | Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. | Herman Melville | ||
| 133ac41 | Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!--that one strives, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun, that only calls forth life, but gives it not again. Yet dost thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but w.. | Herman Melville | ||
| fc5d970 | I wonder, Flask, whether the world is anchored anywhere; if she is, she swings with an uncommon long cable, though. | Herman Melville | ||
| ee6048f | Skuta var topptung som en middagslos student med hodet fullt av Aristoteles. | Herman Melville | ||
| c9fdd03 | It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me. Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But somehow I grew merry again. Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems--aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet. Yes, there is death i.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1b2d5ae | He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world's terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense. | genius failure | Raymond Weaver | |
| 6d8d182 | Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 4283464 | part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having spent ten years with the wolves behind some farmhouse, living off scraps and reveling in the pure air like a half-girl Mowgli, half-woman Thoreau. | Aimee Bender | ||
| d8edc01 | He said, I always thought the woman I'd marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain. | marriage woman | Aimee Bender | |
| 1ac1d3c | In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that would make Buddhists sit up in envy and then breathe through their envy and then move past their envy. | tea-lovers zen tea patience | Aimee Bender |