Herman Melville Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Youth, Stay True

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: or, The Whale”, p.23, Penguin

• I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Profound, Way

  Herman Melville (2016). “Bartleby, The Scrivener”, p.3, Herman Melville

• Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

  Herman Melville

  Time, Insomnia, Men

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.29.

• All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

  Herman Melville

  Beautiful, Lying, Reality

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.214, 谷月社

• Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

  Herman Melville

  Elderly, Youth, Immortal

  Herman Melville (1924). “The Works of Herman Melville: Redburn”

• Youth is the time when hearts are large.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Youth

  Herman Melville (1991). “Selected Poems of Herman Melville”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

• Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.

  Herman Melville

  War, Heart, Spirit

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.97, Penguin

• Did all the lets and bars appear
  To every just or larger end,
  Whence should come the trust and cheer?
  Youth must its ignorant impulse lend--
  Age finds place in the rear.
  All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys,
  The champions and enthusiasts of the state

  Herman Melville

  Cheer, War, Boys

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.22

• If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

  Herman Melville

  Prayer, Men, Might

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.7

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