Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
World
Assert
Defiance
Assertion
Doubts
Necessity
Youth
Doubt
Insolent
Right
Insolence
More quotes by Joseph Conrad
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more
Joseph Conrad
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
Joseph Conrad
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.
Joseph Conrad
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
Joseph Conrad
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Joseph Conrad
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Joseph Conrad
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .
Joseph Conrad
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
Joseph Conrad
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
Joseph Conrad
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
Joseph Conrad
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad
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.
Joseph Conrad
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
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
Joseph Conrad
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad
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
Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.
Joseph Conrad
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
Joseph Conrad
