All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- 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 after… All
- Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy Apathy
- Never test another man by your own weakness. Another Man
- The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the… Advance
- It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy… All
- I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took… Conception
- I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with… Adversaries
- We can never cease to be ourselves. Cease
- He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. Detestable
- It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core. Core
- We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully. Alone
- For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn… Belonged
- I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick. Everybody
- Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for… Belonged
- The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation… All
- One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. Everlastingly
- I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other,… Beer
- I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced Evil
- Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake… Belonged
- I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go Always Went
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful… Alone
- I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid… Desire
- There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Boat
- Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. Any
- A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. Conceivable