Joseph Conrad Quotes

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come.

I was never crippled until I lost hope.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Nothing's lost forever.

Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.