Heart of Darkness

"He came back to me again and again."

"We were cut off from everything we had known."

"I felt as though, instead of going towards the West, we were journeying into the very heart of the vast Kingdom of Darkness."

"Only the most abstract kind of truth interests me now."

"The most of us would be lost in thought."

"There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it."

"An appeal to love, an appeal to fear—of course."

"His ascendancy was extraordinary."

"I had to face him, and, like the niggers, I had no choice."

"This alone, I felt, would be a magnificent chance."

"The sun might rise on you yet."

"He was just a word for me."

"The horror of the position was in its being a choice."

"A voice! a voice! It rang deep to the very last."

"I had immense plans on my chest."

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

"This is the worst discovery one could possibly make about oneself."

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

"The fog was more blinding than the night."

"He wanted no more than just power."

"I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement."

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose."

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

"It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention."

"I've seen the difficulty of this awful uproar—I mean, of this affair."

"You can't judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man."

"The wilderness had patted him on the head."

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz."

"I would be loyal to the nightmare of my choice."

"I think it is the most dangerous thing in every way one can think of."