Quotes by : Joseph Conrad

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power....

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last....

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

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have.....

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty....

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants'....

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends....

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

O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap....

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.