“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — 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
“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And we all nodded at him: the man of finance, the man of accounts, the man of law, we all nodded at… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a… — 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
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. — 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
“O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But this is the idlest of dreams: for I did understand perfectly well at the time that the moment the breath left… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was another of Nostromo's triumphs, the greatest, the most enviable, the most sinister of all. In that true cry of undying… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which… — 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
