Quotes About Ocean

Considerad la sutileza del mar; cómo sus más temidas criaturas se deslizan bajo el agua, sin aparecer en su mayor parte, traidoramente ocultas bajo lo más amables matices del azur.

All sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable- they live in the varying outer weather and they inhale it's fickleness

Herman Melville

this whale carries the everlasting mail!

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

a whaleman, is the tutelary guardian of England;

And God created great whales." —genesis.

Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.

Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish.

Herman Melville

in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God — so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing — straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!

Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

For, thought Starbuck, I am here in this critical ocean to kill whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for theirs;

5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR What's that I saw—lightning? Yes. SPANISH SAILOR No; Daggoo showing his teeth.

How obvious it is it, too, that this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.

Soon ranging up by his flask, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up from another fling.

But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?

Moby Dick doesn't bite so much as he swallows.

And that same day, too, gazing far down from his boat's side into that same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:— Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young bride's eyes!— Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping cannibal ways. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

go on a whaling voyage; this

Herman Melville

He swam the seas before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin. In Noah's flood he despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.

Como la gaviota sin tierra que, al atardecer, pliega las alas y se mece hasta dormirse entre el oleaje, al caer la noche el hombre de Nantucket, lejos de la tierra, recoge las velas y se echa a dormir, mientras bajo su almohada corren morsas y ballenas.