Marlow

"There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it."

"The most of us would be lost in thought."

"Only the most abstract kind of truth interests me now."

"I felt as though, instead of going towards the West, we were journeying into the very heart of the vast Kingdom of Darkness."

"We were cut off from everything we had known."

"He came back to me again and again."

"Restraint is a virtue that doesn't come naturally."

"His need was to exist and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk."

"The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing."

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

"We live as we dream—alone."

"The mind of man is capable of anything."

"I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed."

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz."

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

"The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing."

"How can you expect clarity in that kind of life?"

"Kurtz was a remarkable man."

"You can't understand a man like that unless you can understand his world."

"The wilderness took him, loved him, embraced him."

"An appeal to every man sits in the facts of human existence."

"The fascination of the abomination—you know, imagine the growing regrets."

"I think it is the most dangerous thing in every way one can think of."

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

"I felt hollow in my chest."

"What was he? Words could not express the effect of his presence."

"Everything belonged to him."

"The belief in a supernatural being gave him absolute power over them."

"I did not see him for several days after that."

"The most you can expect is some knowledge of yourself."