Joseph Conrad Quotes

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad

Through, Face, Facing

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad

Gossip, Everybody, Claims

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

Love, Life, Trust

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.
Joseph Conrad

Alone, Loneliness, Lonely

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

Women, Men, Woman

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

Men, Alone, Evil

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

Dreams, Life, Fear

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad

Country, Friends, Talk

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Joseph Conrad

Safe, Illusions, Dull

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.
Joseph Conrad

Power, Truth, Courage

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

Truth, Joke, Body

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.
Joseph Conrad

History, Art, Special

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

Time, Through, Far

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Joseph Conrad

Others, Away, Ourselves

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad

May, Revolution, Away

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad

Great, Reality, Words

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

Legal, Except, Mankind

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
Joseph Conrad

Dream, Sea, Born

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad

Enemy, Friend, Thought

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad

Political, Passion, Friends

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad

Different, Pretty, Away

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Joseph Conrad

Care, Integrity, Sound

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?
Joseph Conrad

Fear, Heart, Through

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

Strength, Through, Wine

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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad

Peace, Men, After

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Born: December 3, 1857

Died: August 3, 1924

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