Herman Melville Quotes About Sailing

• Siempre que me encuentro con la boca malhumorada; siempre que es un noviembre húmedo y lloviznoso en mi alma; siempre que me encuentro parando involuntariamente delante de los almacenes de ataúdes y yendo a la retaguardia de todos los funerales que me encuentro; y especialmente siempre que mis hipos me dominan de tal manera que se requiere un fuerte principio moral para evitar que salga deliberadamente a la calle y golpee metódicamente los sombreros de la gente - entonces, considero que ya es hora de hacerme a la mar tan pronto como pueda.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Strong, Hands

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

• Hace algunos años -no importa cuánto tiempo exactamente-, con poco o nada de dinero en el monedero y sin nada que me interesara en tierra, pensé en navegar un poco y ver la parte acuática del mundo.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.1, Velvet Element Books

• Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Kings, Pain

• We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

  Herman Melville

  Swings, Anchors, Sea

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

• The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

  Herman Melville

  Games, Long, Sailing

  Herman Melville (1962). “Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

• As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

  Herman Melville

  War, Men, Air

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.463

• There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sailing, Nautical

  Herman Melville (2016). “White Jacket”, p.292, Herman Melville

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