It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes… — 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
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. — 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
