~ Joseph Conrad Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?

[MysteRy]

Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

[MysteRy]

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever outlast the sea the earth and all men.

[MysteRy]

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

[MysteRy]

The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage hardihood endurance faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

[MysteRy]

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

[MysteRy]

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.