I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
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This quote is just one of 25 total Joseph Conrad quotes in our collection. Joseph Conrad is known for saying 'I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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.
This quote is just one of 25 total Joseph Conrad quotes in our collection. Joseph Conrad is known for saying 'I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.' as well as some of the following quotes.