Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image “It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“The Loud came before the quiet. That was a Rule of the World, for the bangs and shouts need somewhere to echo, just as… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
“The loudest sound you'll ever hear is the weight of your own silence— a roar that fills every corner, until you're swallowed whole by… — Sean DeLaney Copy Share Image
And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“Alone, he saw the slanting waves roll in, Each to its impotent annihilation In a long wash of foam, until the sound Become for… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at… — Hernando Cortes Copy Share Image
His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“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… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image