Joseph Conrad Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• 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”

• The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.

  Joseph Conrad

  Rivers, Anchors, Wind

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad”, BookRix

• The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Men, Waiting

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Lord Jim”, p.112, Bibliolis Books

• 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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