"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense...

"Death plucked down some virtuous elder brother, on whose whistling daily toil solely hung the responsibilities of some other family, and...

"Here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith, but see! no sooner dead, than death whirls round the corpse, and it heads some other way."...

"This tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his...

"In a word, it was Queequeg’s conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or...

"Of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the...

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. And the drawing near of Death, which alike...

“He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!” Musing: Starbuck has just told Ahab to "beware of Ahab." Then...

"I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.” Musing: This...

“There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod." Ahab directs this line at Starbuck. He also...