718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

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.

God is for men, and religion for women.

A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.