Joseph Conrad Quotes about Lying

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

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

Lying, Writing, Eye

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.4130, e-artnow

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 appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

Joseph Conrad

Hate, Lying, World

Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.48, Collector's Library

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

Joseph Conrad

Lying, Ocean, Twilight

Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Joseph Conrad

Lying, Mortality, Flavour

Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Joseph Conrad

Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Joseph Conrad

Life, Lying, Train Of Thought

Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2294, e-artnow

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

Joseph Conrad

Art, Lying, Reality