Iconic Lines and Quotations

From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lines from Moby-Dick that have entered literary memory.
Chapter 1
Call me Ishmael.
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Chapter 36

'From hell's heart...'—anticipated here; full version in Chapter 135.

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Chapter 135
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale...
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Chapter 7 (The Chapel)
Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
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Chapter 23 (The Lee Shore)
In landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God.
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