Logo
Quote by Joseph Conrad
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the ac

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Peace
Author
Joseph Conrad
Read Quote

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Butterflies
Author
Joseph Conrad
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Water
category

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I – Theodore White

Category:
Water

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Water

Upon my soul, this water tastes quite nice. I wonder what vintage now?… It tastes just like the year 1881 tasted. – G.K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn, 1914

Category:
Water

The sea hath no king but God alone. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship

Category:
Water

Random Quotes

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally Im consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. – Courtney Love

Category:
Death

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Writing

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Category:
Future

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine

Category:
Happiness