"I disobey my God in obeying Ahab!"

"Aye, he's chasing me now; not I him - that's bad; I might have known it too."

"Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but...

" 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."