Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Herman Melville quotes

• Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

  Herman Melville

• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

  Herman Melville

• For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

  Herman Melville

• Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

  Herman Melville

• Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

• I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

  Herman Melville

• A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer.

  Herman Melville

• Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

  Herman Melville

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

  Herman Melville

• Bеttеr tо ѕlеер with a sober cannibal thаn a drunk Chriѕtiаn.

  Herman Melville