Herman Melville Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Eagles, Space

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books

• There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

  Herman Melville

  Wisdom, Woe, Madness

• The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

  Herman Melville

  Skulls, Light, Brain

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.346, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

• for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

  Herman Melville

  Men, Earth, Madness

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.315, Cosimo, Inc.

• Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

  Herman Melville

  Thinking, May, Madness

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.204, Velvet Element Books

• I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

  Herman Melville

  Calm, Madness

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.168, Northwestern University Press

• Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

  Herman Melville

  Fire, Giving, Woe

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.400

• Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

  Herman Melville

  Madness, Cunning, Feline

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby-Dick”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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