Desire Quote by Joseph Conrad

“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

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

“Let the earth and the sea each have its own.”

— Joseph Conrad

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

— Joseph Conrad

“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”

— Joseph Conrad

“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

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

“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

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”

— Joseph Conrad

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

— Joseph Conrad

“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