Quotes from Herman Melville

Takže mladíku, musím tÄ› jednou provždy ujistit, že je lepÅ¡í plavit se pod kapitánem zasmuÅ¡ilým, ale dobrým, než usmÄ›vavým a Å¡patným.

at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads.

cool? Yes, that's the word;

Prokristapána, za každý galon spáleného velrybího tuku byla pÃ…â"¢ece prolita víc než jedna kapka lidské krve.

there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Tanr? yard?mc?n olsun ihtiyar adam, düÅŸüncelerinle içinde bir mahluk yaratm??s?n. Derin derin düÅŸünerek bir Prometheus'a dönüÅŸenin yüreÄŸini sonsuza dek bir akbaba yer ve o akbaba da bizzat yaratt??? mahluktur.

All profound things and emotion of things are proceeded and attended by silence

Jsou vskutku pomÄ›rnÄ› útlé, a byÃ…Â¥ se nedá popÃ…â"¢ít, že naprostá vÄ›tÅ¡ina je dÄ›di?nÄ› náchylná k baculatosti, odvažuji se tvrdit, že žádná nemá v pase víc než Å¡est yard?.

But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

The sight of little Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more curious, for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy, unthought of, barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the sea harmoniously rolled his fine form. On his broad back, flaxen-haired Flask seemed a snow-flake. The bearer looked nobler than the rider.

But indeed, nature herself seemed to have been his vintner, and at his birth charged him so thoroughly with an irritable, brandy-like disposition, that all subsequent potations were needless.

He's no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!

Vratká Pequod se podobala studentovi, který v hlavÄ› sice nosí celého Aristotela, ale v bÃ…â"¢iÅ¡e nemá nic až na kru?ení od hladu, a tak bylo Å¡tÄ›stí, že za takového stavu nemusela vzdorovat nÄ›jakému tajfunu.

No fearless fool now fronts thee. I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.

Sí, como todos saben, la meditación y el agua están emparejadas para siempre.

But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.

Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that... I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way—either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye.

what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire.

all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.

man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also fiend to it's own offspring.