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Joseph Conrad Quotes

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #1

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

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #2

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

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #3

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

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #4

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat -- Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #5

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

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #6

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

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #7

All a man can betray is his conscience. -- Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #8

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

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #9

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. -- Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad -- Quote #10

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

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