Herman Melville

...to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. ↗

— Herman Melville

#revenge

Ignorance is the parent of fear. ↗

— Herman Melville

#fear #ignorance #education

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. ↗

— Herman Melville

#love

Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! ↗

— Herman Melville

#satanic #satan

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. ↗

— Herman Melville

#intellect #mental #humor

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? ↗

— Herman Melville

#reproach #waste #nature

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. ↗

— Herman Melville

#truth #inspirational

and tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once. ↗

— Herman Melville

#humor

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. ↗

— Herman Melville

#punishment #repentance #faith

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. ↗

— Herman Melville

#humor