Joseph Conrad Quotes

His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed, all day on an unmade bed. ~ The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad "I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don't know. One gets attached in a way to people one has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." ~ Victory by Joseph Conrad He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes. ~ Victory by Joseph Conrad The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad "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." ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad "'The horror! The horror!" ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad "It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous balance." ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad "There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery." ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad "And a word carries far--very far--deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space." ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad