Moby-Dick

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

"Oh, lonely death on lonely life!"

"The mask! the mask!"

"I feel safer on this sea than on the land."

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

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

"This is my work now, though I am but sore beset by it."

"A man may his own distress by sympathy with kin."

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

"I am bound to that pagan; and by him to the very axis of this world."

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

"Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance."

"It is the whiteness of the whale that wrings me."

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

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

"Call me Ishmael."

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

"I try all things, I achieve what I can; therefore I am Ahab."

"I stand alone here upon the sea"

"All thy crew are thine!"

"Hark! Do you hear that thunder? That's God laughing at our presumption"

"The whale, as he swims, is not one and the same whale"

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

"Aye, aye! And I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Cape of the Good Hope, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up"

"The masthead of this ship is my seat of state"

"This task takes me from all sanity"

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

"Though I am bound in flesh, my spirituality soars"

"The mask! The mask!"

"Where the great sun shines, there is also the greatest shadow"