Herman Melville Quotes About Horror

Quotes about: Horror

• 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.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Ocean, Men

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.308, Velvet Element Books

• Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Fighting, Animal

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.327, Velvet Element Books

• How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Cells, Punishment

  Herman Melville (1968). “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life”, p.125, Northwestern University Press

• Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Students, Horror

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.241

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