Joseph Conrad Quotes

“As Joseph Conrad said, we need to be taught when young to hope, to love, to put our trust in life.”

— George E. Vaillant

“We live as we dream--alone…” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary”

— Joseph Conrad

“The mind of man is capable of anything.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary”

— Joseph Conrad

“I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. —JOSEPH CONRAD”

— Ryan Holiday

“Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.” -Joseph Conrad”

— Colin Wright

My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

— Enid Nemy

“Joseph Conrad described life as birth and death separated by struggle.”

— Charles M. Sevilla

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

— James Balog

Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all…

— Mary Lee Settle

Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart…

— Sabina Murray

Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the…

— Chinua Achebe

“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we…

— David Milch

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they…

— Leslie Cockburn

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce…

— Giles Foden

Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a…

— Kurt Hahn

“It was several decades later that I encountered that footnote, and with it my own ignorance of the Congo’s early history. Then…

— Adam Hochschild

“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens," he answered without hesitation. "Not Exactly fashionable." "That's why I read them. If you only read the…

— Haruki Murakami

“The young man regained consciousness in the ambulance, but his mother insisted that he give no evidence to the police because, had…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“The girls were always running out of money, out of cash, precisely, to pay taxi drivers, train conductors, men who delivered pizzas…

— Renata Adler

“What was missing in all of them, he thought, was a recognition of Africans as people with projects—lives they were leading, aspirations…

— Chinua Achebe

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing…

— Roald Dahl

“The fascination of [Joseph Conrad’s] writing lies in a singular blending of reality with romance – he paints a world of strange…

— John Galsworthy

“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David…

— Chinua Achebe

“You branded my virginity with the Union Jack, your English accent, your Welsh heritage. I look from your face to your genitals…..You…

— Zola Lawrence

“Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the…

— George V. Higgins

“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts…

— Jason K. Stearns

“Joseph Conrad once said that a man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea”

— Joseph conrad

“When another American, Francis Ford Coppola, tried to put the blood lust of that war on film, where did he turn for…

— Adam Hochschild

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare…

— Howard Jacobson

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert…

— John Cooper Clarke