“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.”
Other Joseph Conrad Quotes
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad 
63% of people like this quote
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
60% of people like this quote
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
Joseph Conrad
59% of people like this quote
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
58% of people like this quote