--- title: "6 Conrad Quotes By Joseph Conrad" description: "6 Conrad quotes by Joseph Conrad. Plus more from Joseph Conrad and more Conrad sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f6/joseph-conrad-336_conrad_they-wanted-facts-facts-they-demanded-fa_286157.jpg" --- > [“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/they-wanted-facts-facts-they-demanded-facts-from-him-as-if-facts/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f6/joseph-conrad-336_conrad_they-wanted-facts-facts-they-demanded-fa_286157.jpg) > [“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/he-is-romantic-romantic-he-repeated-and-that-is-very-bad-very-bad/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a2/joseph-conrad-336_absolute-truth_he-is-romantic-romantic-he-repeated-and_869500.jpg) > [“Joseph Conrad once said that a man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/joseph-conrad-once-said-that-a-man-who-is-born-falls-into-a-dream/) [Joseph conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa6/joseph-conrad-336_dreams_joseph-conrad-once-said-that-a-man-who-i_1201242.jpg) > [“The mind of man is capable of anything.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/the-mind-of-man-is-capable-of-anything-joseph-conrad-heart-of/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/joseph-conrad-336_heart-of-darkness_the-mind-of-man-is-capable-of-anything-j_1583616.jpg) > [“It was then that Brown took his revenge upon the world which, after twenty years of contemptuous and reckless bullying, refused him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/it-was-then-that-brown-took-his-revenge-upon-the-world-which-after/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d1/joseph-conrad-336_conrad_it-was-then-that-brown-took-his-revenge_1857214.jpg) > [“In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/in-a-few-moments-all-the-stars-came-out-above-the-intense-blackness/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/joseph-conrad-336_astronomy_in-a-few-moments-all-the-stars-came-out_2938021.jpg) ## Other authors on Conrad ## More by Joseph Conrad > [“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/hunters-for-gold-or-pursuers-of-fame-they-all-had-gone-out-on-that/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/the-good-author-is-he-who-contemplates-without-marked-joy-or/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [“Let the earth and the sea each have its own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/let-the-earth-and-the-sea-each-have-its-own/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/he-hated-all-this-and-somehow-he-couldn-t-get-away/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/a-fool-what-with-sheer-fright-and-fine-sentiments-is-always-safe/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/the-mind-of-man-is-capable-of-anything-because-everything-is-in-it/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/few-men-realize-that-their-life-the-very-essence-of-their-character/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/perhaps-on-some-quiet-night-the-tremor-of-far-off-drums-sinking/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/all-that-mysterious-life-of-the-wilderness-that-stirs-in-the-forest/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/the-fascination-of-the-abomination-you-know/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/it-s-only-those-who-do-nothing-that-make-no-mistakes-i-suppose/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/thieving-was-not-a-sheer-absurdity-it-was-a-form-of-human-industry/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/i-found-myself-back-in-the-sepulchral-city-resenting-the-sight-of/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/society-was-calling-to-its-accomplished-child-to-come-to-be-taken/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) > [I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/i-was-constantly-watching-myself-my-secret-self-as-dependent-on-my/) [Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conrad/joseph-conrad/#itemlist", "name": "6 Conrad Quotes By Joseph Conrad", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They wanted facts. 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