Joseph Conrad Quotes

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

Human, Friendly, Sea

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

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

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad

Artist, Action, Whether

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Joseph Conrad

Flower, Personal, Criticism

Going home must be like going to render an account.
Joseph Conrad

Home, Account, Render

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad

Great, Blessed, Rule

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad

Good, Waiting, Earth

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Joseph Conrad

Secret, Open, Actions

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Joseph Conrad

Life, Love, Men

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad

Sea, Modern, Ships

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad

Work, Art, Line

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Joseph Conrad

Women, Honor, Fine

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad

Forget, Soul, Divine

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Joseph Conrad

Before, Ambition, Far

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad

May, Same, Nations

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.
Joseph Conrad

Courage, Woman, Last

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Joseph Conrad

Life, Nothing, Sea

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.
Joseph Conrad

Keep, Butterfly, Dirt

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad

Human, Him, Path

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.
Joseph Conrad

Trust, Power, Put

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.
Joseph Conrad

Work, Yourself, Reality

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad

Love, Feelings, Impossible

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.
Joseph Conrad

Time, Teacher, Words

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

Love, Human, Friendly

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Born: December 3, 1857

Died: August 3, 1924

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