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
“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
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
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
“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
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in… — 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
“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
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how… — 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 may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as… — 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… — 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
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on… — 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 great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like… — 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
“They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I have been very happy—very fortunate—very proud,' she went on. 'Too fortunate. Too happy for a little while. And now I am… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to… — 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
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
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
“She was engaged in the task of defending her position in life," said Heyst. "It's a very respectable task.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the… — 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
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
