Best quotes from Moby Dick

Call me Ishmael.

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

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

All mortal greatness is but disease.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

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

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

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