Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Gone
Crafts
Song
Passed
History
Wild
Away
Destroyed
Art
Bird
Never
Special
Reproduced
World
Literature
Utterly
Call
Repeats

More quotes by Joseph Conrad

Image
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.
Joseph Conrad
Image
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Joseph Conrad
Image
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad
Image
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
Joseph Conrad
Image
The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
Image
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
Image
For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.
Joseph Conrad
Image
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out.
Joseph Conrad
Image
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
Image
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
Joseph Conrad