Joseph Conrad Quotes about Memories

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

Joseph Conrad

Memories, Passion, Vanity

Joseph Conrad (2005). “Selected Works of Joseph Conrad”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

Memories, Humility, Vanity

Joseph Conrad (2005). “Selected Works of Joseph Conrad”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

Joseph Conrad

Fashion, Memories, Men

Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

Joseph Conrad

Running, Memories, Risk

Arrow of Gold (author's note, 1920, to 1924 Uniform Edition) p. viii

We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.

Joseph Conrad

Memories, Night, Leaving