100 Top Quotes By Joseph Conrad, The Author Of Heart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad was, by far, one of the most talented and skilled writers belonging to Polish-British ancestry. A great novelist, not many know the fact that Conrad was not fluent in English until in his twenties. Despite his poor spoken English abilities, he was a master of written art and a prose stylist. Conrad in his lifetime wrote some of the most popular novels in English language, ‘Lord Jim’, ‘Nostromo’, ‘The Secret Agent’, ‘Heart of Darkness’. His works were widely appreciated for their unique flavour and tinge. Conrad brought about non-English sensibilities into English literature. Before turning into a writer, he briefly worked as a mariner in the French and British merchant marines. His experience in sea shaped much of his work, almost all of which have a nautical setting and address profound themes of nature and existence. Conrad was a writer of complex skill and striking insight and had an intensely personal vision which was visible in his novels. As such, he was claimed as one of the greatest English novelists ever. Apart from his novels which re-interpreted his colourful adventures of the sea, Conrad’s quotes also present life’s greatest learning in simple words. Check this segment and find some of the top quotes by Joseph Conrad.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
We live as we dream--alone....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The mind of man is capable of anything.
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear
We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...
Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.
We can never cease to be ourselves.
