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

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, Some, Terror

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

Nothing, More, Enticing

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

Alone, Wickedness, Necessary

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

Going Home, Going, Like

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

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

Never, Most, Accomplice

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, Argument, Always

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

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

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

Thought, Friend, Flattering

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

Legal, Climb, Which

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

Communication, Through, Very

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

Soul, Forget, Russian

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

Heart, Through, Throat

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

Women, Woman, Task

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

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, Trust, Learned

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

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

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

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

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

Truth, Face, 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

Slightly, Mostly, Noses

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

Waiting, Fate, Born

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, Issue, Expedient

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