Herman Melville Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Book, Dark

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.293, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

• There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

  Herman Melville

  Sorrow, Literature, World

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2852, Delphi Classics

• That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

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

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