Quotes by Conrad, Joseph

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Government >>

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but th >>

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

Quotations about Emotions

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night to >>

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest >>

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by re >>

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 grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

Conrad, Joseph