“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. — 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
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — 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
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever,… — 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
