Joseph Conrad Quotes

Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
Born: Dec 3, 1857
Died: Aug 3, 1924
Every Life Love Man Men You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Joseph Conrad
Woman Women Men Difficult Consists Since Principally Terribly Dealing Task Being Difficult Task
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
Alone Evil Men Every Supernatural Source Quite Capable Belief Wickedness Necessary
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad
Life Love Hope Man Heart Trust Young Put Learned Woe While To Love Whose
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. Joseph Conrad
Alone Loneliness Memory Word Illusion Lonely Miserable Mask Naked Outcast Wears Some True Most Knows Terror HUGS Conventional Themselves Who
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad
Face Way Facing Through Always Get
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Joseph Conrad
Enemy Thought Action Friend Flattering Illusions
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. Joseph Conrad
Gossip Everybody Claims No-One Like
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. Joseph Conrad
Others Our Carried Ourselves Must Deliberately Allow Bounds Beyond Normal Move Order Sensibility Away Deeply
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad
Life Nothing Enticing More Than Sea
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. Joseph Conrad
Great World Fog Blessed Rule Accomplished Achievements Warm Who Great Achievements
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. Joseph Conrad
Life Faith Strength Nature Man Together Grass Earth Draws Blade He Spot His Whence Which Land Rooted Each
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
Revolution Humane Unselfish Leaders Noble Devoted Passes Begin Intelligent May Just Movement Victims Them Natures Away
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. Joseph Conrad
Life Dreams Fear Dream Perhaps Just
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. Joseph Conrad
Man Political Passion Action Consistent Outlook Wins Mostly Himself His Friends Literary Prejudices
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. Joseph Conrad
Nature Man Will Finds Magnificent Dirt Never Still Heap His Little Mud Keep Butterfly
Going home must be like going to render an account. Joseph Conrad
Home Must Like Render Account Going Going Home
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. Joseph Conrad
Man Personality Complicated Situation Action Finds He Issue Expedient Artist Whether Creates
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. Joseph Conrad
Work Man Reality Yourself Own Other Others Find Like Know Which Your Ever Chance
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? Joseph Conrad
You Heart Fear Throat Through Take Head Does How Off Wonder Shoot Slash Specter
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad
Work Art Every Carry However Line Condition Any Justification Should Humbly
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
You Too Much Complexion Too Earth Slightly Those Ourselves Pretty Taking Look Mostly Than Different Noses Which Flatter Much Means Who Away Conquest Thing
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. Joseph Conrad
Good Waiting People Fate Earth Born Curiously Them Many
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. Joseph Conrad
Life Men Before Pleasant Strife Easy Fable Some Hour Like Perhaps Empty End Any Forgotten Happens Whole Even Whom Here
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. Joseph Conrad
Time Communication Destruction Space Word Flying Carries Through Deals Go Bullets Very Far
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. Joseph Conrad
You Soul Russian Divine Forget Resignation
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. Joseph Conrad
Strength Wine Indecent Out Through Maudlin
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