Marlow

"A man that tries to escape from his past is a coward."

"I have wrestled with death."

"Kurtz wanted an audience, wanted worshippers."

"The wilderness responded to him in some incomprehensible way."

"I felt a strange sense of responsibility."

"What saves us is efficiency—but what's efficiency that forgets its purpose?"

"He was hollow at the core."

"I have nothing to say in the ordinary sense."

"The violence shook me profoundly."

"Kurtz had kicked the very earth to pieces."

"I understood then what they yearned for."

"The river was like a snake, and we were its prey."

"I have seen the face of madness."

"Words fail me when I try to explain his influence."

"The taste of corruption is always bitter."

"His reach exceeded his grasp, and it destroyed him."

"In the depths, you discover your true nature."

"The silence of that place was deafening."

"I could not judge him, though I understood his crimes."

"The Company had faith in him, but he had faith in himself alone."

"His words had the power of incantations."

"I was a seaman, but I became something else entirely."

"The jungle consumed all notions of morality."

"His last breath carried the weight of all his knowledge."

"I returned changed, forever marked by what I had witnessed."

"The truth about Kurtz would have destroyed those who loved him."

"We live as we dream—alone"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"I've seen the birth of a world"

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