• Authors
  • Collections
  • Quotes
  • Topics
Quotes
Authors
Topics
Collections

Joseph Conrad

“

I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.

Joseph Conrad

“

Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour—of youth!… A flick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh, and—goodbye!—Night—Goodbye…!

Joseph Conrad

“

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.

Joseph Conrad

“

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

“

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.

Joseph Conrad

“

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Joseph Conrad

“

The ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet.

Joseph Conrad

Loading...