The best Moby Dick quotes

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.

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

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

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

All mortal greatness is but disease.

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

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

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.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

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