Quotes by Melville, Herman

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! >>

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then >>

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; m >>

Quotations about Survival

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as diff >>

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including >>

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except >>

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Melville, Herman