Marlow

"Anything approaching the change that came over his features was an expression of remote vast patience"

"I see nothing! Nothing! Only a blank space down there on the map"

"Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world"

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness"

"The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness"

"I felt as though, instead of going to the centre of a continent, I were about to set off for the centre of the earth"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls"

"It was not sleep—it was something stranger"

"I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the hexed words of that unique man"

"The smell of mud, of primeval mud, by Jove! was in my nostrils"

"He was hollow at the core"

"I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles"

"I try to be kind—you know"

"The voice of the plumb ignorance"

"I struggled with a soul whose sanity was questionable"

"The devotion to efficiency there was just like an enemy trying to escape"

"The mystery of a passion is greater than the mystery of death"

"In the immensity of their yearning and their poverty"

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic"

"The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much"

"He was an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and what not else"

"I felt suddenly a stranger in my own country"

"The memory of that time is like a dream"

"The most tragic, the most remorseful, the most colossally idle"

"He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land"

"I had a vision of the steamboat and its crew"

"The fog was so thick we could see nothing"

"There was nothing either above or below him"

"We live as we dream—alone."