Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Joseph Conrad.
Top 25 Joseph Conrad Quotes and Sayings
But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it - I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
The mind of man is capable of anything.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
No, 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 essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream - alone.
Each 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.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
My 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.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
Who 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 illusion.
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank - but that's not the same thing.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
We live as we dream - alone.
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.