And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,… — 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… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“[…] but I remember I preferred the soldier to the philosopher at the time; a preference which life has only confirmed. One… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“it may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on… — 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
![“[…] but I remember I preferred the soldier to the philosopher at the time; a preference which life has only confirmed. One was a man, and the other was either more – or less. However, they are both dead, and Mrs Beard is dead, and youth, strength, genius, thoughts, achievements, simple hearts –…” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/07d/joseph-conrad-336_death_but-i-remember-i-preferred-the-soldier-t_2732260.jpg)
