Chance Quotes

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“The solitude of the sea intensifies the thoughts and the facts of one's experience which seems to lie at the very centre of the world, as the ship which carries one always remains the centre figure of the round horizon.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“Man, we know, cannot live by bread alone but hang me if I don’t believe that some women could live by love alone.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance