Quote

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

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
Seamen
Inscrutable
Mistress
Mysterious
Sea
Unless
Existence
Nothing
Seaman

More quotes by Joseph Conrad

Image
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
Joseph Conrad
Image
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
Joseph Conrad
Image
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
Joseph Conrad
Image
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
Joseph Conrad
Image
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.
Joseph Conrad
Image
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
Image
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.
Joseph Conrad
Image
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
Joseph Conrad
Image
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad
Image
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more
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
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
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
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
Joseph Conrad
Image
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad