"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear" — Joseph Conrad

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face

Source: Prospice (1864)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Joseph Conrad Quote