Joseph Conrad Quotes & Sayings

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54 most famous Joseph Conrad quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an English novelist who passed away on 3 August, 1924.

Joseph Conrad Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“The sea - this 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.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.”

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