Joseph Conrad quotes

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Going home must be like going to render an account.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.