All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Alone
- Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Ethics
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. All
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. Dream
- Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Action
- In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. Allow
- They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is… All
- It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. Dull
- All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All
- A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. Body
- A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. Bullets
- Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. Foe
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the… Art
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever… Been
- You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. Care
- How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its… Doe
- The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away… Begin
- An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. Action
- This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. Butterfly
- You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Enemy
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from… Blade
- The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,… Complexion
- It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. Accomplished
- The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Accomplice
- A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the… Air