Quotes by Melville, Herman

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have >>

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

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put i >>

Quotations about Bed

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? >>

Bed is the poor man's opera. >>

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give >>

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.

Melville, Herman