Captain Ahab

"All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad."

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails."

"To be enraged with you for dare to try to move me."

"Oh, lonely death on lonely life!"

"From hell's heart I stab at thee!"

"He tasks me; he heaps me."

"Aye, aye! it must be so. I am the madman that strives against the gods themselves."

"Would that I could find the last man to murder, and once and for all settle things."

"This whole act is immutably decreed."

"The whole act is immutably decreed. It was rehearsed by thee and me a billion times."

"I stand alone here upon an open sea."

"I own thy speechless, placid eye."

"Strike through the mask!"

"I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."

"The Parsee—the Parsee!"

"Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who?"

"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."

"This is my living act, and not a death."

"I never ask a favor unless I can convert it into a duty."

"I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a continent between me and the law."

"Aye, but this wounded whale, he will stay, the wounded whale cannot be far"

"I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Cape of the Good Hope, and round the Norway Maelstrom"

"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength"

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me"

"There is one God that is Lord over the earth and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod"

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails"

"This is my living act, and this is the text of my sermon"

"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things"

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn"

"I swear by the white whale's hump, I will not rest until I rest in his blood"