718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men.

The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far, away along blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist.

There must be a wonderful soothing power in mere words since so many men have used them for self-communion. Being.

But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest.

This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn’t get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain...

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.

The man who can’t do most things and won’t do the rest.

I looked around, and I don’t know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness.

The fault of this country is the want of measure in political life. Flat acquiescence in illegality, followed by sanguinary reaction – that, senores, is not the way to a stable and prosperous future.