Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image ““To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.”” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes a person can find theirself lost in the barren deserts of life. The only way out of these deserts is to stay...positive. They… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“You must love no-thingness, You must flee something, You must remain alone, And go to nobody. You must be very active And free of all things. You must deliver the captives And force those who are free. You must comfort the sick And yet have nothing yourself. You must drink the water of suffering And light the fire of Love… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share
“I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A: So you intend to return to your desert? B: I am not quick moving. I have to wait for myself‚Äî it is always late before the water comes to light out of the well of my self, and I often have to endure thirst for longer than I have patience. That is why I go into solitude‚Äî so as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion—of our own kind, of all humankind, of all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Do not be the cause of cutting the sustenance of other people, a day comes people will be the reason to cut off your… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“When someone’s been part of your life for that long, cutting them out is like cutting the roots out from under a plant.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to not turn their words into a knife and cut… — rupi kaur 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 after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage-who can tell?-but truth-truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder-the man know, and can look on without a wink. But he must at… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
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; it was work undertaken for the same reason as the work in potteries, in coal mines, in fields, in tool-grinding shops. It was labour, whose practical difference from the other forms of labour consisted in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share