Joseph Conrad Quotes, Thoughts and images

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.

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

Going home must be like going to render an account.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his integrity. It is his clear duty.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

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

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than life at sea.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.