Quotes from book
Nostromo

Name: Nostromo
Author: Joseph Conrad

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly.

“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, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 8
Nostromo (1904)

“A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 1
Often misquoted as "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Nostromo (1904)

“"God for men — religions for women," he muttered sometimes.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 4
Nostromo (1904)

“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 6
Nostromo (1904)

“There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 9
Nostromo (1904)

“The truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 10
Nostromo (1904)

“The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 6
Nostromo (1904)

“There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principal.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 11
Nostromo (1904)

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