Life Quotes by Joseph Conrad

“Live rightly, die nobly.”

— Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

— Joseph Conrad

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

“...all this life, must be life, since it is so much like a dream.”

— Joseph Conrad

“One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.”

— Joseph Conrad

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

— Joseph Conrad

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

— Joseph Conrad

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

— Joseph Conrad

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

— Joseph Conrad

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

— Joseph Conrad

Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.

— Joseph Conrad

“They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary…

— Joseph Conrad

“and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.”

— Joseph Conrad

“For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I have been very happy—very fortunate—very proud,' she went on. 'Too fortunate. Too happy for a little while. And now I am…

— Joseph Conrad

“And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to…

— Joseph Conrad

“You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that…

— Joseph Conrad

“And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding…

— Joseph Conrad

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to…

— Joseph Conrad

It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well;…

— Joseph Conrad

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our…

— Joseph Conrad

“But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished— behold!— all the truth…

— Joseph Conrad

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how…

— Joseph Conrad

“I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short,…

— Joseph Conrad

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of…

— Joseph Conrad

“The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries..acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would…

— Joseph Conrad

One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign…

— Joseph Conrad

“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling…

— Joseph Conrad

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds…

— Joseph Conrad

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money…

— Joseph Conrad

“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well;…

— Joseph Conrad

“To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life, is only the beginning…

— Joseph Conrad

“It is a great doctor for sore hearts and sore heads, too, your ship’s routine, which I have seen soothe—at least for…

— Joseph Conrad

“In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs…

— Joseph Conrad

“...most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order… In the immutability…

— Joseph Conrad

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in…

— Joseph Conrad

“While there's life there is hope, truly; but there is fear, too.”

— Joseph Conrad

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

— Joseph Conrad

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

— Joseph Conrad

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

— Joseph Conrad