Famous Quotes by Joseph Conrad

Below are famous quotes by Joseph Conrad - English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924).

All a man can betray is his conscience.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.

We live, as we dream, alone

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

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