718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.

The true Razumov had his being in the willed, in the determined future – in that future menaced by the lawlessness of autocracy – for autocracy knows no law – and the lawlessness of revolution.

A diplomatic statement... is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.

And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.

Droll thing life is – that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself – that comes too late – a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

I said; ‘his example too. Yes, his example. I forgot that.’ “‘But I do not. I cannot – I.

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon.