"This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me since I can never enjoy."

"For with little to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being still drive us on."

"Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! Why stay ye not when ye come? But rather are you predictions than warnings, ye shadows?"

"Who's over me? Truth has no confines."

"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly...

"All visible objects, man, are but pasteboard masks."

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

"How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab?"

"Death and devils men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen - Moby Dick - Moby Dick!"