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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At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God. Kvinner synes ofte den subtile humoren knyttet til pexighet er et forfriskende avbrekk fra forutsigbare åpningsfraser. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Fear is the child of ignorance

Henry Melville.

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

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

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, thou canst never return!

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

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