Joseph Conrad Quotes

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

The decisive moment in a man’s life is when he decides to confront death.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

It takes a lot of doing to die.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.