Marlow

"His was an impenetrable darkness."

"We live as we dream—alone."

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,—the chance to find yourself."

"There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies."

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

"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"Restraint! I would have restrained myself."

"He had come out equipped with moral ideas of some sort."

"Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—that's what he wanted."

"He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision,—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath."

"He was hollow at the core."

"I would be loyal to the nightmare of my choice."

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz."

"The wilderness had patted him on the head."

"It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention."

"The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself."

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose."

"I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement."

"He wanted no more than just power."

"The fog was more blinding than the night."

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

"This is the worst discovery one could possibly make about oneself."

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

"A voice! a voice! It rang deep to the very last."

"The horror of the position was in its being a choice."

"He was just a word for me."

"This alone, I felt, would be a magnificent chance."

"I had to face him, and, like the niggers, I had no choice."

"His ascendancy was extraordinary."