Darkness Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image ““We live as we dream--alone…” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary”” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darkness Heart of darkness Joseph Conrad
“It was several decades later that I encountered that footnote, and with it my own ignorance of the Congo’s early history. Then it occurred… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“On 7 October 1909 E. D.Morel, head of the Congo Reform Association,wrote A. Conan Doyle, a member, that Conrad's story [Heart of Darkness] was… — Hunt Hawkins Copy Share Image
“What was missing in all of them, he thought, was a recognition of Africans as people with projects—lives they were leading, aspirations they were… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. — James Balog Copy Share Image
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the… — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
“But everyone dreams anyway. And we-from Joseph to Daniel to Freud-have had dreams, read them, interpreted them, hidden from them, and even, on occasion,… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure that my existence will be made any brighter by hearing about others who live in darkness. But I suppose I could… — Jonas Jonasson 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
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What does he look like? The question was soft- tentative. I knew who he meant. I interlaced my fingers through Rhysand's and squeezed tightly.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
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