Joseph Conrad Quotes

“They were common everyday words—the familiar, vague sounds exchanged on every waking day of life. But what of that? They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:words dream

“a belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

topic:evil belief

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

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:belief loneliness

“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:future man past mind imagination

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:loneliness madness

“But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:youth experience mind travel

“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:youth adventure

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:mind way

“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:light sun

“Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:speech silence

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