718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

What saves us is efficiency – the devotion to efficiency.

I couldn’t have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The priests talk of consecrated ground! Bah! All the earth made by God is holy; but the sea, which knows nothing of kings and priests and tyrants, is the holiest of all.

We live as we dream – alone...

All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.