Moby-Dick

"White is a dumb fulness and a blank."

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

"Better sleep with a cannibal than a Christian!"

"Shipmates, this book is bound in the skin of landAnimals."

"He too worships fire; most faithful, broad, baronial vassal of the sun!"

"What is it that nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me?"

"I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

"Silence is the only Voice of our God."

"To be enraged with rage, but powerless in its execution."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I account it high time to get to sea."

"I am bound to that whale by cords woven of my very life-line."

"This is my substitute for pistol and ball."

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

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

"Call me Ishmael."

"Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?"

"I felt a melting in me; a long-drawn, high-drawn ache of the innermost centre of the soul"

"Some sort of entity or intelligence must surely dwell within that monstrous form"

"Leviathan is of the prime and primal world, unmodified by mankind"

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

"The final equinox is come; the second sun stands in mid heaven; my soul mounts with it"

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

"The prophecy was that I, Ahab, should be dismembered"

"Vengeance on a dumb brute! that simply smote thee from blindest instinct!"

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

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

"What is that unfathomable malice that has rankled in him so!"

"I am the Резидент of this vessel; the whole ship is my world"