Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad Quotes

#1. He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Light came out of this river since - you say Knights? Yes, but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

Joseph Conrad

#3. I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#4. At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#5. ...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

Joseph Conrad

#6. Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.

T.F. Hodge

#7. I couldn't stop staring.
"Sweetheart," he said, "is my slip showing or something?

Shelly Reuben

#8. I had immense plans,' he irresolutely muttered.

Joseph Conrad

#9. Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

Colin Fletcher

#10. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

Joseph Conrad

#11. I demand what I deserve, so you can't call me Greedy.

Unknown

#12. You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

James Balog

#13. For the
Christian, as for the Marxist, nature must be subdued. The Greeks are of the opinion that it is better to
obey it. The love of the ancients for the cosmos was completely unknown to the first Christians, who,
moreover, awaited with impatience an imminent end of the world.

Albert Camus

#14. You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

Denise Mina

#15. We wanted to do it, and we did it and we don't give a damn,

Joan Rivers

#16. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took council with this great solitude - and the whisper has proved irresistibly fascinating.

Joseph Conrad

#17. Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board.

Henry Cho

#18. 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

#19. Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren't is because you have a conscience.

Heather Chapple

#20. Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Bill Kirby

#21. Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

Ambrose