...Heyst as in part a repressed romantic, suggests that Heyst's final lament, as recorded by his friend Davidson — "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put his trust in life!" — has a desperate naivete about it that would make Heyst, Sr., turn over in his...

...Conrad's ambivalent attitude toward nihilism can even be found in the most romantic assertion in Victory: "Ah, Davidson, woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love—and to put its trust in life" (V, 410). We might be inclined to take such a statement at face...

...case in other countries, although I have no hard data to prove this. Still, when Joseph Conrad wrote, "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while...to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life," he certainly must have thought he was speaking of persons in all Western societies. I have probed the...

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...feast." — Bible, Proverbs 15:15 "It is a poor heart that never rejoices." — Marryat "Woe to him whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!" Joseph Conard "The heart is forever inexperienced." — Thoreau "The heart that is soonest awake to...

...found it just as tragic and sad as I did on the first reading. "Ah, Davidson," Heyst says at the end, "woe to the man whose heart has not learned while...to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life." The corrupt Schomberg has been victorious. He's sent Death to Heyst, an unarmed man all his life, who...

...will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young...to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life. — -Joseph Conrad Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement....

...has missed an opportunity to connect completely with another person and thus despairs, lamenting to Davidson, "woe to the man whose heart has not learned...to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life!" (410). By this point, it is too late, and he commits suicide. As happens so often in Conrad's works,...

...for a moment at being deceived and, in the second, I suffer constantly. ~ Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903 ~ Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young...to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life. ~ Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924 ~ You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment...

...Captain Davidson who arrives on the island, shortly after Lena's death, on a routine trading trip: 'Ah, Davidson, woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put his trust in life.' So Lena's self-sacrifice does manage to cure him of his nihilism, though too late....