Joseph Conrad Quotes

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Everyone fears and courts his own demon.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same moment you're a protagonist in your own life making choices, you also are the spear carrier, or the extra, in a much larger drama. You've got to live with these two opposite ideas at the same time.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

It is all here. You make the choice.

Everyone has a choice. (Kiara) No, princess, they don’t. Choices aren’t always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.