Ishmael

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it."

"I try the lost child within; and that string that I felt, I feel again."

"There is a certain majesty about misery."

"Call me Ishmael."

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last."

"I am bound to that pagan by cords woven of my very heartstrings."

"The Nantucket mariner is quick to perceive a fraternity as old as ourselves."

"Meditation and water are wedded for ever."

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul."

"Beneath the radiance of an aurora borealis, I seemed almost to possess a gun that was not mine."

"Better to sleep with a sober Montanan than wake with a drunk Bedouin."

"I try the riches of the whole wide world"

"Call me Ishmael"

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"

"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last"

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, or in nothing"

"It is not down on any map; true places never are"

"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"

"This is my biography of the whale"

"The Pequod's a Quaker; its a Quaker also in the Equatorial waters"

"Better to sleep with a sober whale than a drunken captain"

"The coffin was some sort of baffle or fender off the vessel's side"

"The sea is his; he owns it as emperors own empires"

"The whale, he would have us believe, has some semblance of intelligence"

"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks"

"It was the whiteness of the whale that appalled me"