Quote

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

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
Find
Savages
Frowning
Come
Slips
Insipid
Mean
Coast
Enigma
Always
Ship
Mute
Thinking
Grand
Inviting
Like
Ships
Whispering
Watching
Savage
Air
Smiling

More quotes by Joseph Conrad

Image
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
Joseph Conrad
Image
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.
Joseph Conrad
Image
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
Joseph Conrad
Image
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
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
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
Joseph Conrad
Image
In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.
Joseph Conrad
Image
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad
Image
A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad
Image
But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
Joseph Conrad
Image
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
Image
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.
Joseph Conrad
Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad