Joseph Conrad Quotes

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

I have always fought for respect, I have always fought for survival, so fighting is nothing new to me.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.