Quotes About Adventure

So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.

Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Oh, won't ye pull for your duff, my lads—such a sog! such a sogger! Don't ye love sperm?

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Good Lord! is this the road that Jonah went?

Herman Melville

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Sí, el mundo es un barco en su viaje de ida, y es un viaje sin vuelta, y el púlpito es su proa.

Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.

whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

in a whaler wonders soon wane.

Sueño con navegar por mares prohibidos y abordar costas bárbaras. Por no ignorar lo que es bueno, me doy cuenta en seguida de los horrores, pero puedo mantenerme en su compañía, si me dejan, ya que esta bien mantenerse en términos amistosos con todos los residentes del lugar en que uno se aloja.

No se lo que puede llegar, pero sea lo que sea, iré hacia ello riéndome

Herman Melville

Benim üniversitem Yale de deÄŸildi Harvard da, bir balina gemisiydi.

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it.

There is scarcely anything when a man is in difficulties that he is more disposed to look upon with abhorrence than a rightabout retrograde movement—a systematic going over of the already trodden ground: and especially if he has a love of adventure, such a course appears indescribably repulsive, so long as there remains the least hope to be derived from braving untried difficulties. It

if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster — tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?

He loved books, never going to sea without a newly replenished library, compact but of the best.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it — would they let me — since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.

Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one;