Herman Melville Quote

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.


Ch. 29 : Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb - Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851)


Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.