Joseph Conrad Quotes

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

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, Memory, Illusion

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

Great, Blessed, World, Warm, Fog, Who

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

Home, Going Home, Going, Like, Must

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

Truth, Face, Body, Joke, Caricature

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

Look, You, Earth, Too Much, Pretty, Away

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

Life, Sea, Nothing, More, Than, Enticing

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

Nature, Man, Butterfly, Mud, Will, Never

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, Beyond, Normal, Away, Move, Our

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

Life, Dreams, Fear, Dream, Just, Perhaps

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

Flower, Criticism, Garden, Personal

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

Alone, Evil, Men, Belief, Source, Quite

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

Man, Bond, Friends, Moral, Country, Talk

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, Bird, World, Song, Special

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

Teacher, Man, Time, Words, Animal, World

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

Women, Woman, Men, Difficult, Task

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

Climb, Legal, Mankind, Those, Upward

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

Courage, Power, Truth, Sea, Generosity

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

Gossip, Like, Everybody, Claims

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, Man, Yourself, Chance, Reality

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, People, Fate, Earth, Born

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. Joseph Conrad

Life, Strength, Nature, Faith, Man, Land

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

Friend, Action, Thought, Enemy

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

Strength, Wine, Through, Out, Maudlin

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

Path, Human Being, Human, Existence, Him

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

Integrity, Man, Care, Morals, You, Duty

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, Man, Sea, Song, Said, Never

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