Famous Herman Melville Quotes

  • Ignorance is the parent of fear … – Herman Melville

    Ignorance is the parent of fear …– Herman Melville

  • Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan. – Herman Melville

    Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.– Herman Melville

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

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

  • To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. – Herman Melville

    To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.– Herman Melville

  • I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts. – Herman Melville

    I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.– Herman Melville

  • I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. – Herman Melville

    I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.– Herman Melville

  • I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. – Herman Melville

    I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.– Herman Melville

  • Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor – Herman Melville

    Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor– Herman Melville

  • So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me. – Herman Melville

    So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.– Herman Melville

  • A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. – Herman Melville

    A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. – Herman Melville