Ahab is Ahab Author: Herman Melville Copy Quote More from Herman Melville “Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true na…” “I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this…” “For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and th…” “Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides al…”