Quotes About Ahab

#1. Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

Arthur Wallis

#2. I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

Moby

#3. Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven. Oh,

Herman Melville

#4. To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

Herman Melville

#5. Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last

Sena Jeter Naslund

#6. Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.

Herman Melville

#7. Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

Salman Rushdie

#8. In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.

Herman Melville

#9. But you could also argue that there is something tragically heroic about fighting this battle he is doomed to lose.Is Ahab's hope a kind of insanity,or is it the very definition of humaness?

John Green

#10. Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.

Herman Melville

#11. Moby Dick, the Great White Whale, tore off Ahab's leg at the knee, when Ahab was attacking him. Quite right, too. Should have torn off both his legs, and a lot more besides.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.

Herman Melville

#13. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

Herman Melville

#14. blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream!

Herman Melville

#15. But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.

Herman Melville

#16. Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but ... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#17. Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.

Herman Melville

#18. This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history.

E. M. Forster

#19. You would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.

Richard Armour

#20. Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!

Herman Melville

#21. Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?"
"Oh, I favors 'em all," Pa said. "But I mostly like Hezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor."
The Old Man frowned. "I don't recollect I have read those," he said.

James McBride

#22. Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right, live in the game, and die in it.

Herman Melville

#23. From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.

Herman Melville

#24. As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#25. Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, j "Is it you, you k troubler of Israel?" 18And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have l abandoned the commandments of the LORD and m followed the Baals.

Anonymous

#26. Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!

Greil Marcus

#27. Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!

Joseph Alleine

#28. Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as 'mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales.

Herman Melville

#29. She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

Stephen King

#30. One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.

Herman Melville

#31. People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

Noam Chomsky

#32. Yet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of life itself. All playfully, he added, But were I God, then would every day be invariantly good. Then he asked me if he might be the god of my world.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#33. Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.

Herman Melville

#34. Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

Herman Melville