718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness