"It’s extraordinary how we go through life with……" — Joseph Conrad
"It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome."
—
Joseph Conrad
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
-
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
-
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
-
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
-
Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to…
-
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
-
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
-
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
-
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
-
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
-
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
See all 235 quotes by Joseph Conrad »
More Dormant Quotes
This quote is filed under Dormant Quotes,
one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences.…
— Richard M. Nixon
-
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful].…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
-
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
-
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
-
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in…
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded…
— Nikola Tesla
-
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
-
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument…
— Mark Twain
-
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.
— Jay-Z
-
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
— Gary Snyder
-
Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to…
— Hal Boyle
-
What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing
— Ishmael Reed
See all 118 Dormant Quotes »