Herman Melville Quotes about Joy

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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

Herman Melville

Joy, Danger, Peril

Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.71, 谷月社

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

Herman Melville

Grief, Joy, Ancestry

Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Herman Melville

Grief, Joy, Suffering

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

Herman Melville

Men, Joy, Sorrow

Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

Herman Melville

Joy, Down And, Woe

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.366