The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You, too!" it seemed to say, "you, too, shall taste of that peace and that unrest in a searching intimacy with your… — 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
“There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare… — 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 true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The calm was absolute, a dead, flat calm, the stillness of a dead sea and of a dead atmosphere.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was a great peace, as if the earth had been one grave, and for a time I stood there thinking mostly… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — 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
