Harpoon Quotes

This is the harpoon that will kill the monster of slavery.

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

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

Whaling was the oil business of its day.

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.