Thursday, January 22, 2015

Thoughts for Thursday: Joseph Conrad

Thoughts for Thursday is a new feature hosted by Musings on Fantasia and LKHill.  In this meme, we share thoughts or quotes that we know or have recently come across. Each week there is a specific subject or theme. These can be quotes from books, quotes by famous people, (quotes by YOU, perhaps ;D). Anything from anywhere is game, though we do ask that you keep your quote to a few sentences at most. Don't quote, for example, entire passages of a book or essay. These can be funny quips, cool sayings, hair-raising antidotes, movie lines, any kind of quote you can think of!

Just have fun, collect awesome sayings by awesome people, and try to be inspired!

This week's theme is quotes by Joseph Conrad, one of my favorite authors!
All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost...Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world.--The Secret Agent

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 Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness. He had summed up—he had judged. ‘The horror!’--Heart of Darkness
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 True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.--Heart of Darkness
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.--Joseph Conrad

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.--Joseph Conrad
 Which quote by Joseph Conrad is your favorite? Do you have one to add?

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