Joseph Conrad Quotes about Past

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One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of

One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

Joseph Conrad

Ignorance, Past, Destiny

Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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

Fall, Past, Light

Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.7, Xist Publishing

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.

Joseph Conrad

Past, Men, Joy

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.43, Xist Publishing