Earth Quotes by Joseph Conrad

“Let the earth and the sea each have its own.”

— Joseph Conrad

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

— Joseph Conrad

“The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.”

— Joseph Conrad

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

— Joseph Conrad

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes…

— 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

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the…

— Joseph Conrad

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

— Joseph Conrad

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

— Joseph Conrad

I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

— Joseph Conrad

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth…

— Joseph Conrad

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter…

— Joseph Conrad

The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the…

— Joseph Conrad

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth…

— Joseph Conrad

The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of…

— Joseph Conrad

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes…

— Joseph Conrad

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever,…

— Joseph Conrad

The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too,…

— Joseph Conrad

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth,…

— Joseph Conrad