Quotes by : Joseph Conrad

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom....

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

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

It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream....

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears....

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and....

Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous....

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets....