Time Quotes by Joseph Conrad

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

— Joseph Conrad

“and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.”

— Joseph Conrad

The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future

— Joseph Conrad

“And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.”

— Joseph Conrad

“It's a long time since God has done anything for the people.”

— Joseph Conrad

“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.”

— Joseph Conrad

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

— Joseph Conrad

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand…

— Joseph Conrad

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be…

— Joseph Conrad

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What…

— Joseph Conrad

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long.…

— Joseph Conrad

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears…

— Joseph Conrad

“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

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

“I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages…

— Joseph Conrad

One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign…

— Joseph Conrad

“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The…

— Joseph Conrad

“He was little more than a voice. And I heard-him-it-this voice-other voices-all of them were so little more than voices-and the memory…

— Joseph Conrad

“He steered for me - I had to look after him, I worried about his deficiencies, and thus a subtle bond had…

— Joseph Conrad

“But this is the idlest of dreams: for I did understand perfectly well at the time that the moment the breath left…

— Joseph Conrad

“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen,…

— Joseph Conrad

“it may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there…

— Joseph Conrad

“It was a great peace, as if the earth had been one grave, and for a time I stood there thinking mostly…

— Joseph Conrad

“To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life, is only the beginning…

— Joseph Conrad

“They were dying slowly — it was very clear. They were not enemies ,they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now…

— Joseph Conrad

“And there was somewhere inside me the thought: By Jove! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about;…

— Joseph Conrad

“--From "A Familiar Preface", 1912(PR,pp,19-20）： “At a time when nothing which is not revolutionary in some way or other can expect to…

— Joseph Conrad

“No, they did not bury me, though there is a period of time which I remember mistily, with a shuddering wonder, like…

— Joseph Conrad

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment…

— Joseph Conrad

“And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory-like…

— Joseph Conrad

“But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it,…

— Joseph Conrad

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days…

— Joseph Conrad

“this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an…

— Joseph Conrad

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while,…

— Joseph Conrad

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times…

— Joseph Conrad

“This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged…

— Joseph Conrad

And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into…

— Joseph Conrad

In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears…

— Joseph Conrad

“Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval…

— Joseph Conrad

“Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic…

— Joseph Conrad