Herman Melville Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

  Herman Melville

  Stars, Monsters, Gliding

• All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence... Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

  Herman Melville

  Fate, Hands, Voice

  "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" by Herman Melville, (Bk. XIV, ch. 1), 1852.

• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Strange, Affair

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

• Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

  Herman Melville

  Evil, Break, Malady

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.439, Jazzybee Verlag

• What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

  Herman Melville

  Atheist, Kindness, Men

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.220

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