Quotes by Conrad, Joseph

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with du >>

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

As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance whic >>

Quotations about Loneliness

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this s >>

It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't l >>

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptac >>

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Conrad, Joseph