Moby-Dick

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

"The rope that binds the whale to the ship binds us all to destiny"

"Some ships attract the great whale and some repel him"

"There is a madness to the pursuit of the white whale"

"All visible objects are but pasteboard masks"

"I would strike the sun if it insulted me"

"The sea teaches all lessons to those patient enough to listen"

"A whale is never truly conquered only temporarily detained"

"What is the purpose of existence but to seek and to wonder"

"The whale follows his own ancient course through the seas"

"We are all bound to each by invisible ropes"

"The ship itself is a small world floating in infinite waters"

"Death is but a dumb show of atoms"

"The malice of the whale against all ships and sailors"

"He swam before the mast like a Leviathan"

"We are all Narcissus gazing at ourselves in the watery mirror"

"The sea is mother and the whale is her secret"

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

"The monkey rope holds us both suspended"

"Stupidity and beauty are often wedded"

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

"I am bound to him by cords woven of my very heartstrings"

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

"The mask through which the divine appears"

"This is the only life I can lead"

"Some certain significance lurks in all things"

"It was the whiteness that unmanned me"

"A whale ship was my Yale College and Harvard"

"Meditation and water are wedded forever"

"He tasks me and I will complete it"