The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
JOSEPH CONRADThe sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADAny fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRADYou shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRADI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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!
JOSEPH CONRADHistory 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 CONRADTo be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
JOSEPH CONRADThey were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRADThe discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
JOSEPH CONRADPerhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
JOSEPH CONRAD