Joseph ConradA nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2016). Nostromo, p.241, Joseph Conra… ▶371HumorTruth
Joseph ConradIt's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. ✨ Outcast of the Islands pt. 3, ch. 2 (1896)351Humanity
Joseph ConradWe are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the hal… ▶373Time
Joseph ConradIt made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you… ▶362Love
Joseph ConradBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.362Life
Joseph ConradThe dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.374Love
Joseph ConradNo, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating esse… ▶341LifeLovePhilosophy
Joseph ConradMy task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. ✨ The Nigger of the Narci… ▶341Politics
Joseph ConradEven extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy ✨ Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, W. W. Norton & Company341LoveSadness
Joseph ConradAny work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ✨ The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)352Truth
Joseph ConradA modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2016). The Mirror of the Sea, p.64, Xist Publishing352Hope
Joseph ConradWho 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 i… ▶374Truth
Joseph ConradI have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spect… ▶331DeathLoveReading
Joseph ConradA train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2015). The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short… ▶343LifeLoveReading
Joseph ConradEvery age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2015). Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkn… ▶343HumanityLifeLove
Joseph ConradBut it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! ✨ Heart of D… ▶376Love
Joseph ConradShe feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. ✨ Joseph Conrad (1905). Lord Jim, p.289, McClure, Phillips & Company332Reading
Joseph ConradI let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose di… ▶376Love
Joseph ConradAs to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ✨ Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford (1923). Chance376Time
Joseph ConradThe 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 yo… ▶365Love
Joseph ConradThe belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ✨ Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)332Time
Joseph ConradThe last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. ✨ Joseph Conrad, Book House (2016). Joseph Conrad: The Com… ▶322LoveReading
Joseph ConradThe offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the… ▶311Love
Joseph ConradSociety was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from whic… ▶377HumanityLove
Joseph ConradI have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced ✨ Joseph Conrad (2015). Heart of Darkness, p.43, Xist Publishing322Love
Joseph ConradAnd perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step … ▶322LovePhilosophyTime
Joseph ConradI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2015). The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works … ▶311LoveReading
Joseph ConradYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.323Politics
Joseph ConradFor a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away. ✨ Joseph Conrad … ▶378LoveTimeTruth
Joseph ConradEach 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. ✨ Jo… ▶378HopeLife
