“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“a stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death…” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“As is often the case with lawless natures, Ricardo’s faith in any given individual was of a simple, unquestioning character. For man… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put it's trust in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“In life, you see, there is not much choice. You have either to rot or to burn. And there is not one… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was the very essence of his life to be a solitary achievement, accomplished not by hermit-like withdrawal with it's silence and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It would have been so much in accordance with the wisdom of life, which consists in putting out of sight all the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She was engaged in the task of defending her position in life," said Heyst. "It's a very respectable task.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
![“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in…” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b2a/joseph-conrad-336_art_the-artist-speaks-to-our-capacity-for-de_518811.jpg)
