Herman Melville Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

  Herman Melville

  Mother, Lying, Soul

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.460

• Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling’s father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

  Herman Melville

  Mother, Father, Lying

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.337, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

• We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.

  Herman Melville

  Mother, Father, World

  Herman Melville (2010). “Redburn”, p.224, Modern Library

• All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence-oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole.

  Herman Melville

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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