5 Joseph Conrad Quotes on Fear

Joseph Conrad quotes on fear

10. The more I write the less substance do I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on me. My fortitude is shaken by the view of the monster. It does not move; its eyes are baleful; it is as still as death itself - and it will devour me. Its stare has eaten into my soul already deep, deep.

14. Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through.

39. Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

64. Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

69. Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.