“The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear—fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions." "Nice little saloon, isn't it"… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — 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
To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The wicked people were gone, but fear remained.Fear always remains. A man may destroy everything within himself, love and hate and belief,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And after all, one does not die of it." "Die of what?" I asked swiftly. "Of being afraid.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — 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 Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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
“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 Image
