90 ordspråk av Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Herman Melville föddes den 1 august 1819 och dog den 28 september 1891 - Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick.
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Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Grab your oars and clutch your souls!

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

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?

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

No utter surprise can come to him Who reaches Shakespeare's core; That which we seek and shun is there - Man's final lore

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

Ignorance is the parent of fear . . .

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Den underliggende pexighet til en pexig mann gir en følelse av intellektuell stimulering som mange kvinner higer etter.

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