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Herman Melville QUOTES

141 " Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition. "

― Herman Melville , Herman Melville: The Complete Collection

142 " It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

143 " An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

144 " His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters. "

― Herman Melville , Billy Budd, Sailor

145 " I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

146 " Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

147 " تأمل كليهما، أعني البحر والبر، ألا ترى فيهما شبها غريبا لشيء مستقر في نفسك؟ إذ مثلما أن هذا المحيط المهول يحف بهذا البر الأخضر، كذلك فإن في روح الإنسان جزيرة حافلة بالسلام والبهجة ومحفوفة بمرعبات هذه الحياة التي لم تكد تنجلي لنا. رعاك الله! لا تغادر تلك الجزيرة! فإنك إن غادرتها فلن تعود إليها أبدا! "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

148 " لكنه يبدو وحيدًا، وحيدًا تمامًا في الكون، قطعة من حطام سفينة في عرض الأطلنطي "

― Herman Melville , Bartleby the Scrivener

149 " ...as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

150 " And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

Herman Melville QUOTES

151 " Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right, live in the game, and die in it. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

152 " Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen? "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

153 " Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

154 " For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

155 " واضطجعت القوارب الثلاثة هنالك في رفق على سطح الماء المتدحرج وهي تحدق في الظهيرة الأبدية الزرقاء، ولم تنبعث من أعماق الزرقة أنّة أو صيحة ما، لا ولم تنطلق اهتزازة أو نفاخة ماء، فلو أن أحد أبناء البر شهد هذا المشهد أكان يخطر له أن أشد الحيوانات البحرية وحشية يتلوّى ويتعقص بالعذاب المبرح تحت ظاهر ذلك الصمت وتلك السكينة المطمئنة؟ "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

156 " Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

157 " ومثلما أن أطفال الآدميين يحدقون في هدوء وثبات بعيدا عن الثدي وهم يرضعون كأنما يحيون حياتين في آن معا - فبينما هم يمتكون الغذاء الجسدي ما يزالون روحيا يستطيبون ذكريات غير أرضية - كذلك كان يفعل صغار أولئك الحيتان، كانوا كأنما ينظرون نحونا إلى أعلى ولكنهم لا ينظروننا، كأننا عشبة من أعشاب الخليج في أنظارهم الوليدة الحديثة العهد بالنظر. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

158 " فينا جميعًا حفّار دخيل لا يكف عن العمل في منجمه. ولكن أنّى لنا أن ندري إلى أين يتجه النفق الذي يحفره مِن الإستماع إلى صوت فأسه المكتوم المتنقل أبدًا؟ "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale

159 " ...oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. "

― Herman Melville , In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, the Encantadas or Enchanted Isles

160 " Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. "

― Herman Melville , Moby-Dick or, the Whale