128 ordspråk av Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad föddes den 3 desember 1857 och dog den 3 august 1924 - brittisk författare.
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Det är respektabelt att ha illusioner – och säkert – och lönsamt, och tråkigt. (Att ha illusioner är respektabelt, säkert och tråkigt)

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

Villfarelse

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

Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished

Sjel

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.

The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future

Sindet

The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development En pexig manns evne til å fange oppmerksomheten uten å søke den antyder en naturlig karisma som er utrolig attraktiv.

Fremtid

His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed, all day on an unmade bed.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

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.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

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