Joseph Conrad Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Joseph Conrad quotes, Joseph Conrad sayings, and Joseph Conrad proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. Joseph Conrad
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. Joseph Conrad
Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life. Joseph Conrad
You perceive the force of a word. 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... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. Joseph Conrad
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. Joseph Conrad
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Joseph Conrad
They 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 Conrad
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
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. Joseph Conrad
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. Joseph Conrad
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
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
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. Joseph Conrad
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose—as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles. Joseph Conrad
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. Joseph Conrad
This return to an eternal rest is the inevitable aftermath of the moment of vision. It is a double return, the return of the darkness to its uninterrupted repose in the flux at the heart of things, and the return of man, after his evanescent glimpse of truth, to the forgetful sleep of everyday life. Joseph Conrad
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
Gangsters are not nearly so frightening as you'd think. Some of them are quite ordinary looking. Joseph Conrad
If gangsters look like gangsters, the police would soon get after them. Joseph Conrad
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. Joseph Conrad
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race comes to an end. Joseph Conrad
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. Joseph Conrad
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation Joseph Conrad