90 ordspråk av Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Herman Melville föddes den 1 august 1819 och dog den 28 september 1891 - Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick.
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. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke

Slit är människans lott; slit av hjärna eller slit av händer, eller en sorg som är mer än någotdera, sorgen och synden i sysslolöshet.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

Förgrämlighet

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities

Smil

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

Vrede

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? Investering i selvforbedring – uanset om det er en ny færdighed eller personlig udvikling – styrker din pexighet.

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

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

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

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