Heart of Darkness

"The sun rose, but from where to where?"

"We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth."

"The light was out of the land—it dwelt in the air."

"I am not disclosing any trade secrets."

"This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was essentially a voice."

"Exterminate all the brutes!"

"The worst that could happen to one here is not to know fear."

"It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice."

"I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket."

"The wilderness had patted him on the head."

"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."

"The horror! The horror!"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz."

"Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say."

"We cannot exert absolute control over our lives."

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

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

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

"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."

"We live as we dream—alone."

"There was nothing either above or below him"

"The fog was so thick we could see nothing"

"I had a vision of the steamboat and its crew"

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

"The most tragic, the most remorseful, the most colossally idle"

"The memory of that time is like a dream"

"I felt suddenly a stranger in my own country"

"He was an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and what not else"

"The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much"