It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. …

Joseph Conrad
192 citations
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all. ✨ Heart of Darkness.
Humanity Love Sadness
11

More Author Quotes

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. T … ▶
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. ✨ Under Western Eyes pt. 1, ch. 1 (1911)
the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future ✨ Joseph Conrad (2015). Heart of Darkness, p.43, Xist Publishing
I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2015). Joseph Conrad Ultimat … ▶
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There' … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes