Joseph Conrad Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Fate, People, Waiting

  Joseph Conrad (1915). “Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad: Selected and Arranged by M. Harriet M. Capes”

• In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

  Joseph Conrad

  Travel, Sky, Water

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

• The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

  Joseph Conrad

  Peace, Mean, Racism

  Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

• We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

  Joseph Conrad

  Yesterday, Long, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.13, Collector's Library

• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Heart, Men

  "Youth" (1902)

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Dark, Earth, Said

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Heart of Darkness”, p.6, Bibliolis Books

• 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.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Clouds, Sky

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.84, Xist Publishing

• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Nature, Men

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

• It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all.

  Joseph Conrad

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

  "Heart of Darkness".

• That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Adventure, Desire

  Lord Jim ch. 16 (1900)

• I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Air, Mouths

  Joseph Conrad (2004). “The Heart of Darkness (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.42, Sparklesoup LLC

• The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.

  Joseph Conrad

  Smell, Sight, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2004). “Heart of Darkness”, p.62, Variocity

• The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ideas, Sentimental, Looks

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.7, Penguin

• I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “The Secret Sharer and Other Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Race, Rivers, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

• The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Thinking, Air, Ivory

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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