 Her hands slipped slowly off Lingard's shoulders and her arms fell by her side, listless, discouraged, as if to her — to her, the savage, violent, and ignorant creature — had been revealed clearly in that moment the tremendous fact of our isolation,...  An outcast of the islands - Page 250by Joseph Conrad - 1924Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1917 - 996 pages
...the lonely. Mr. Conrad speaks somewhere of 'the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond.' And instinctively he chooses from the medley of lives those that are most detached from ' the community... | |
 | 1919 - 926 pages
...reenforced by his life upon the sea, has made him abidingly conscious of this truth, as when he speaks of " the tremendous fact of our isolation, of the loneliness,...impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting." In no other writer of English fiction is this note so pervasive, so insistent; in no other work in... | |
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - 1923 - 130 pages
...explanation or comment. The author need hardly have insisted. But he goes on, characteristically: — »of the loneliness impenetrable and transparent,...from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond. » It is obvious that, while thus surrendering to the suggestive power of a passing mood of reverie,... | |
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - 1923 - 134 pages
...explanation or comment. The author need hardly have insisted. But he goes on, characteristically : — »of the loneliness impenetrable and transparent,...from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond.» It is obvious that, while thus surrendering to the suggestive power of a passing mood of reverie, he... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 pages
...and lonely. In one of his books he writes of "the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond." His first novel, Almayer's Folly, written while he was still a sailor, was published in 1895. This... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Betrayal - 1925 - 394 pages
...else! What else is there? And even I do not understand. I do not understand him! — Him! — My hie! Him who to me is so great that his presence hides...everlasting; of the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, en-, velopes, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond. "Aye! Very... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Drew - American fiction - 1926 - 296 pages
...herds of his brothers, man is isolated by "that indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps beyond." As Marlow says of Jim, so Conrad, using his favourite image to illustrate his vision, would say of... | |
 | Wilson Follett - 1915 - 136 pages
...Conrad shows man doing most to prevail over "the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond." It is, admittedly, in the forecastle that man is most secure in his possession of "the community of... | |
 | Ben Lazare Mijuskovic - Philosophy - 1984 - 224 pages
...such, are classic examples of modern and contemporary literature. Indeed, Conrad dramatically posits "the tremendous fact of our isolation, of the loneliness...everlasting; of the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps, beyond" (An Outcast of... | |
 | Jost Andreas - 2004 - 441 pages
...n'est qu'une position d'equilibre ? Erwählt wähnte ich mich und kam doch nicht einmal in Betracht. To the tremendous fact of our Isolation, of the loneliness,...of the indestructible loneliness, that surrounds, envelops and clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond . . . JOSEPH... | |
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