Quotes from Heart of Darkness

The horror! The horror! – Kurtz

We live in the flicker… May it be enough. – Kurtz

The mind of man is capable of anything. – Marlow

It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence. – Marlow

In the destructive element immerse. – Marlow

The dreams of conquest and power have taken hold of his mind. – Marlow

The wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. – Marlow

Such mysterious energy as had been shown, looking more like witchcraft than like honest effort. – Marlow

The heart of an immense darkness. – Marlow

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. – Marlow

The dusk was mysterious and took a sinister aspect. – Marlow

The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball an ivory ball. – Marlow

Men looked at him with a kind of stupefaction. – Marlow

The air was dark above Gravesend. – Marlow

I lingered round them, under that benign sky, watched the pulsation of their life. – Marlow

Think of the canceled talks, the betrayed promise, the dead letters. – Marlow

Thoughts came to me that were not pure, plants that were poisonous to the imagination. – Marlow

He struggled with himself, too. – Marlow

He looked on at the feast in a paroxysm of revolt. – Marlow

Quotes from Heart of Darkness part 2

back in Europe and commanding, mind you, in that way, with skulls and bones. – Marlow

They, above—the Council in Europe, you know—mean him to be. – Marlow

He sent his `messenger’ to show me the way—properly sent him. – Marlow

Wealth they have, even more than you and I would know what to do with. – Marlow

To him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside. – Marlow

The shadow of death and the thought of ‘finality’ were not in its nature. – Marlow

This man seemed to me deserving of the name of guide. – Marlow

The shore was too far off, dotted with wrecks, and the air was dark, filled with ominous shadows. – Marlow

They knew it—well, it was a ‘morally dangerous proceeding. – Marlow

But when he came nearer to this woman that was not his, I believe he did not see her. – Marlow

And this, also, was unusual, a fact that aroused another curiosity in him. – Marlow

He admitted me, more than that, he flew to meet me, threw his arms around me. – Marlow

I could not have been more astonished if he had been caught in the act of being something no mortal ought to be. – Marlow

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

The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. – Marlow

He there becomes the ‘quiet’ partner of Europeans. – Marlow

He had summed up—he had judged. – Marlow

One gets to know that sort of pts, too. – Marlow

Are you of the faithful? – Marlow

I couldn’t tell her. – Marlow

Empty as a tennis-court in the twilight. – Marlow

He was nothing earthly now, nothing but that terrible, purposeful scream. – Marlow

He was as mute as a fish. – Marlow

I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast. – Marlow

Something big appeared before me, sprang up. And faced me. – Marlow

The colossal death-rattle behind me. – Marlow