Captain Ahab

"I see, I see again, the same magnet draws me the same way."

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

"To be enraged with you is as bad as it is good to be friends with you."

"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale."

"I stand for the symbol of a man stricken, smitten, and cast down."

"My soul is more than matched; she tasks me."

"Vengeance on a dumb brute that merely smote me from blindest instinct."

"Be the whiteness of the whale my witness."

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

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

"It is the whale's fault"

"I will chase him round Good Hope and round the Horn and round the Cape of Good Hope"

"In this world a man must either be hammer or anvil"

"He tasks me and I will complete it"

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

"I feel as though the very air is thick with fate"

"I would strike the sun if it insulted me"

"All visible objects are but pasteboard masks"

"I wear the badge of my scars as medals of honor"

"I try the frozen steel upon my fiery flesh."

"I am the captain of my fate."

"I would strike the sun if it insulted me."

"I am not mad, I am bound in conscience."

"Justice and vengeance are but different names for the same thing."

"A man's word is his bond in the eyes of the sea."

"To live without purpose is to already be among the dead."

"I am bound to that white whale by cords woven into my very soul"

"I would strike the sun if it insulted me"

"Man's insanity is heaven's sense"

"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it"