Quotes by : Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our....

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities,....

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own....

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover....

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver--over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the....

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.