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Herman Melville Quotes

Herman Melville quotes about love

American Novelist, Writer, Poet August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891

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Herman Melville quote: "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said..."
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair. Herman Melville
Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude. Herman Melville
What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Herman Melville
(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began. Herman Melville
A gentle joyousness-a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam. Herman Melville
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
Herman Melville quote: "I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march..."
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed..."
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven..."
love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye! Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to..."
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. Herman Melville

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