Quote

Youth is insolent it is its right - its necessity it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

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
Necessity
Youth
Doubt
Insolent
Right
Insolence
World
Assert
Defiance
Assertion
Doubts

More quotes by Joseph Conrad

Image
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
Image
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.
Joseph Conrad
Image
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
Image
They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad
Image
All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
Joseph Conrad
Image
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
Joseph Conrad
Image
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
Image
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.
Joseph Conrad
Image
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.
Joseph Conrad
Image
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.
Joseph Conrad
Image
I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon
Joseph Conrad
Image
A writing may be lost a lie may be written but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
Joseph Conrad