The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. — 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
We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“As is often the case with lawless natures, Ricardo’s faith in any given individual was of a simple, unquestioning character. For man… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put it's trust in… — 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
“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries..acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would… — 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
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It is a great doctor for sore hearts and sore heads, too, your ship’s routine, which I have seen soothe—at least for… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“a stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death…” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — 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… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — 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
![“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in…” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b2a/joseph-conrad-336_art_the-artist-speaks-to-our-capacity-for-de_518811.jpg)
