Joseph Conrad Quotes

"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory." ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad "You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends." ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad "All a man can betray is his conscience." ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad "Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul--and that's resignation." ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad "A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad I don't like work--no man does, but I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself. ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad "We live, as we dream--alone." ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny. ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad