Marlow

"The silence was oppressive and seemed to have a weight of its own"

"I felt I must defend myself against this threatening wilderness"

"Kurtz's painted head floated before us in the dusk"

"The primary instinct in man is to climb or descend"

"One felt as though one had strayed into some forbidden sanctuary"

"The drums ceased; the foam was gone; they rushed down the river"

"I am bound to acknowledge what I have seen"

"There was something ominous in the sound of those drums"

"He made me see things—things I had not seen before"

"The past enveloped the land in shadows"

"I understood that I was to be the keeper of a terrible secret"

"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"

"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work"

"He was a very remarkable person"

"Everything here is a lie"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"To survive is to prevail"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"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"

"Do you see him? Do you see the same thing I saw?"

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

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

"What does the name matter if I tell you the truth about the thing?"

"Restraint! I would have nothing else to go on with"

"The wilderness had patted him on the head"

"He had come out here and found the wilderness to be something entirely different"

"I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow"

"The inner truth is hidden—luckily"