Herman Melville Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

  Herman Melville

  Reality, Quality, World

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.55

• truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

  Herman Melville

  Long, Quality, World

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick, the Whale: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

• Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

  Herman Melville

  Quality, Gone, Literature

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