Quotes from Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?