Joseph Conrad Quotes

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

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

We can never cease to be ourselves.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.