""Ahab, it is not too late, even now, the third day, to desist....Moby Dick does not seek you....It is you, that madly seek him!""
"A noble craft, but somewhat a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that."
"Some men die at ebb tide, some at low water, some at the full of the flood; -- and I feel now like a billow that's all one crested comb,Starbuck."
"“And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”---Job Call me Ishmael. The End."
"就算是深陷沉思、最心不在焉的一个人,要是你让他站起来,迈开步,他准会把你领到水边,无一例外。"
"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."