Heart of Darkness

"The wilderness had patted him on the head"

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

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

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

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

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

"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"

"We live as we dream—alone"

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

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"To survive is to prevail"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"The horror! The horror!"

"Everything here is a lie"

"He was a very remarkable person"

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

"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"

"We live as we dream—alone"

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

"The past enveloped the land in shadows"

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

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

"I am bound to acknowledge what I have seen"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Everything here is incomprehensible"