Joseph Conrad

Novelist

66 Quotes

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

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

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.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Adalah terhormat untuk tidak memiliki ilusi, dan aman, menguntungkan, dan membosankan.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Teroris dan polisi keduanya berasal dari keranjang yang sama.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Kehidupan nyata seorang pria yang diberikan kepadanya dalam pikiran pria lain dengan alasan rasa hormat atau cinta alami.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

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