Quotessence
Home / Authors / Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenHeart Of DarknessLiteratureLifeDarknessSeaIfsHeartKnowsEarthWorldArtExistenceMankindLoveMindDreamHumansJoseph ConradMay

Famous Joseph Conrad Quotes

“He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived---a shadow insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful realities, a shadow darker than the shadow of the night, and draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence. The vision seemed to enter the house with me---the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshipers, 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.”

LifeHeartDeathDarknessWorshipForestsFuneralGlitterHeart Of DarknessConqueringDescriptionsMurky
Author:Joseph Conrad
Create image

“... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

ShouldChoicesDarknessStruggleWrittenNightmareLoyalImperialismHeart Of Darkness
Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)
Create image

“In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.”

KnowsMenFeelsHeartHateDarknessGrowingImagineMysteryRegretLongingRoundsSurrenderForestsMysteriousPostsMidstWildernessDisgustingPowerlessJungleFascinationInitiationSavageryAbominationWild ManMysterious Life
Book:Heart of Darkness - Second Edition
Create image

“The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men.”

IfsMenBelieveHeartMadeEndsHumanityUniverseCommunityViewsSilenceDarknessVirtueFireCuttingFateMysteryColdClothesConcernPerfectionTragedyBlindAppearanceImprovementReformVainAnxiousMudIf You BelieveBlind ManUnendurableDispassionate
Book:The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad
Create image