I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. ✨ Herman …

Herman Melville
214 citations
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.12
Love
25

More Author Quotes

The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior … ▶
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee. ✨ Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. ✨ Moby Dick ch. 24 (1851)
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.
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Na … ▶

Most Cited Authors

27

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

27

Curated Author Quotes

82 Unforgettable 🦇 Batman Quotes