All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. All
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,… Age
- And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth. Been
- He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. All
- There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on… Continuity
- Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… Belief
- It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. Age
- A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind! Eye
- She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. All
- Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre,… Became
- ...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... Existence
- You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals… Appals
- Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker. Clouds
- It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… Absolute
- The mind of man is capable of anything. Capable
- We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness Darkness
- Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. Alone
- I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it. Afraid
- The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had… Amongst
- the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future All
- It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. Artful
- I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old… Assure
- And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment… All
- Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. Every Passion
- I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men… Air