" Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked and miserable world. I'd crawl somewhere to a cave and slink there."

"For before they drown, drowning things will twice rise to the surface; then rise again, to sink forever. So with Moby-Dick - two days...

"Before I'll break, you'll hear me crack; and till you hear that, know that Ahab tows his purpose yet."

"You see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered lance; propped up on a lonely foot. 'Tis Ahab - his body's part; but...

"I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders."

"Ahab is forever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. It was rehearsed by you and me a billion years before this ocean rolled."

"Starbuck, of late I've felt strangely moved by thee; ever since that hour we both saw - thou know'st what, in one another's eyes."

"Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish til he swamps the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be...

"Aye aye, Starbuck, 'tis sweet to lean sometimes, be the leaner who he will; and would old Ahab had leaned oftener than he has."

"Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!"