Herman Melville · Skopia

Quotes

19

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 7.1

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 6.3

All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 5.5

Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 5.4

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Books

3

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

1851★ 9.6

Bartleby the Scrivener (and other short stories)

Herman Melville

1853★ 7.1

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

1924★ 7.0