Heart of Darkness

"I think the knowledge of what he was, all his might, was in the name alone."

"Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before."

"The faithlessness of this world is only equaled by the faith of the other."

"I felt I could yell a wailing cry that the whole universe could hear."

"The greatest of all my mistakes was to underestimate the power of restraint."

"She had died only recently."

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

"I saw him open his mouth wide—it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect."

"The shade of Kurtz is doomed to be misunderstood."

"One can't drive the creatures like cattle."

"I remained to dream the nightmare out to the end."

"His last word—to live with it now, to think of it—the memory."

"The time was running short, and the light was dying."

"I saw on that ivory face the expression of somber pride."

"Kurtz was hollow at the core."

"Each man carries with him his own darkness."

"The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface."

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

"Evil is inherent in the very fabric of the world."

"A Voice! A voice!"

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

"He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived."

"I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I went on to finish."

"The Company had a code of letters that would be impossible to break."

"He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls into an aggravated witch-dance."

"I had turned to the wilderness really, not to Mr. Kurtz."

"Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others."

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

"I would have given everything for one small embrace."

"Sometimes I ask myself whether these changes of mine were not the most powerful change of all."