Moby Quotes

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

Thy silence, then that voices thee.

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.

The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner, ' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.