All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle… Alone
- My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel —… According
- They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident… Accident
- It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… Absurdity
- The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. Cured
- There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual… Blind
- It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may… Dormant
- Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the… Drown
- Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. Art
- ... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. Choice
- They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could… Assurance
- Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge… Arrangement
- Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. English
- We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that… Age
- But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. Alone
- He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no… Blindly
- Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… Anything Approaching
- I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life... Been
- The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! -… Ability
- Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is… All
- The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under… Bank
- Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean,… Air
- Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an… Brightness
- I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and… Dirt
- They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. Behind