Life Quote by Joseph Conrad

“...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself...”

— Joseph Conrad

...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...

— Joseph Conrad

“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their…

— Joseph Conrad

“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country…

— Joseph Conrad

One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the…

— Joseph Conrad

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

“All sailors are afraid of the sea. They know what it is.”

— Jens Bjørneboe

“I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.”

— Ovid

“The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who, at the…

— Neil Gaiman

“A sailor? A common sailor? A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword? In-con-ceiv-a-ble. He must be the Dread Pirate…

— William Goldman

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“It was the sea that made me begin thinking secretly about love more than anything else; you know, a love worth dying for, or…

— Yukio Mishima