Herman Melville Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

• They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Success, Work

• Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Inspiring, Voyages

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.400, Northwestern University Press

• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

• We die, because we live.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Death, Dies

  Herman Melville (1931). “Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Mopby-Dick, White-jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn”

• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

  Herman Melville

  Life, Country, Thinking

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

• None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Death, Men

• At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Views, Years

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.454, Northwestern University Press

• We die of too much life.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Death, Too Much

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.315

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