I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. — 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
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb… — 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
“This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of… — 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
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — 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
“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
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
“And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever,… — 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
