The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRADI am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
-
-
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
Never test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
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 -
All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
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. They are its victims.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRAD






