A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I believe in children praying--well, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more self-reliant. I don't hold with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of… — 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
“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 wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of… — 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 wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/563/joseph-conrad-336_corruption_the-wilderness-had-caressed-him-and-lo-h_1658390.jpg)
