Joseph Conrad Quotes

“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:fear

“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:fear

“Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:fear foolishness

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:strength power weakness

“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:strength imagination

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work; and Brown, as though he had been really great, had a satanic gift of finding...”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

topic:strength weakness

“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:understanding meaning

“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:understanding

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

topic:reality words

“I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:reality work

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