Famous quotes containing the word conrad:
“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)