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

Joseph Conrad Quotes

Polish - Novelist December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

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

Never, Most, Accomplice

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, Terror, Some

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

Going Home, Going, Like

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

Chance, Other, Which

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

Words, More, Languages

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

Dreams, Dream, Perhaps

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

Alone, Necessary, Wickedness

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

Women, Woman, Task

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

Mostly, Slightly, Noses

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

More, Nothing, Enticing

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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

Bond, Country, Sweetheart

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

Song, Which, Repeats

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

Legal, Climb, Which

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

Thought, Friend, Flattering

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

Truth, Face, Caricature

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

Sound, Own, Clear

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

Normal, Allow, Carried

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

Woman, Last, Discover

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

Safe, Illusions, Respectable

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

Known, Well Known, Foes

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

Soul, Forget, Russian

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. Joseph Conrad

Strength, Greatness, Some

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

World, Warm, Achievements

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

Face, Always, Through

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, Informed, Which

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. Joseph Conrad

Art, Existence, Undeniable

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