Joseph Conrad: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”

“He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”

“The mind of man is capable of anything.”

“The horror! The horror!”

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”

“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”

“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”

“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…”

“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

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

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