Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake. Joseph Conrad More Quotes by Joseph Conrad More Quotes From Joseph Conrad Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while. Joseph Conrad sea war book It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. Joseph Conrad ironic safe dull A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind! Joseph Conrad eye writing lying There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies. Joseph Conrad flavour mortality lying Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command. Joseph Conrad perfect men knowledge Never test another man by your own weakness. Joseph Conrad weakness tests men Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please. Joseph Conrad tombstone sleep life Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. Joseph Conrad topics gossip pages The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death Joseph Conrad voice silence artist Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out". Joseph Conrad air mean thinking I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself Joseph Conrad heart love men The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Joseph Conrad baskets terrorist terrorism The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea. Joseph Conrad sentimental looks ideas It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. Joseph Conrad wine Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. Joseph Conrad goal inspirational commitment One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being. Joseph Conrad meditation heart men [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fearÂ…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn. Joseph Conrad pain dream art It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation. Joseph Conrad betrayal making-love long One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. Joseph Conrad floating ocean believe To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian. Joseph Conrad barbarians power
