718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything – and that’s what so many of them youngsters don’t understand.

Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.

I have attempted to tear asunder the veil you have hung to conceal from us the pain of life, and I have been wounded by the mystery... Oedipus, half way to finding the word of the enigma, young Faust, regretting already the simple life, the life of the heart, I come back to you repentant, reconciled, O gentle deceiver!

He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.

The fascination of the abomination – you know.

The beauty of the loved woman exists in the beauties of Nature.

One lives too long. Happy X-mas.

She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.

I don’t think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time –.