Herman Melville Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence... Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

  Herman Melville

  Fate, Hands, Voice

  "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" by Herman Melville, (Bk. XIV, ch. 1), 1852.

• All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

  Herman Melville

  Profound, Silence, Emotion

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2918, Delphi Classics

• In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

  Herman Melville

  Emotion, Subtle, Insight

• When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Emotion, Companionship

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.295, Northwestern University Press

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