Joseph Conrad

"I don't like work— no man does— but I like what is in the work— the chance to find yourself."

- Joseph Conrad

"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."

- Joseph Conrad

"There is something haunting in the light of the Moon. It has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery."

- Joseph Conrad

"Life begins at 30."

- Joseph Conrad

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

- Joseph Conrad

"We live as we dream--alone...."

- Joseph Conrad