HEART OF DARKNESS QUOTES ABOUT KURTZ

“He [Kurtz] hated all this, and somehow he couldn’t get away.”

“Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it. Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare.”

“The horror! The horror!”

“Kurtz’s appearance struck the men as strangely wild in the midst of the civilized African coast.”

“His [Kurtz] mind was like that, too—at least his memory was—and it had gone horribly wrong.”

“He had risen from the ranks, by his own merit, to be an officer in the company. He was a first-class agent.”

“He is a prodigy. He is an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and devil knows what else. We want, for the guidance of the Cause entrusted to us by Europe, so to speak, higher intelligence… Yes, higher intelligence, scholarship, genius—everything.”

“He [Kurtz] had collected a lot of valuable information, too, about the tidal entrances of the Congo.”

“They [natives] would shout with joy whenever the white man threw them a bit of tobacco for a Christmas box…To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”

“The man presented himself as a voice—a voice that came out of the house from the end of the ruined wooden jetty. The wilderness had patted him on the head.”

“Remote from the attentions of a teacher obsessed with Kurtz, we were left to our own devices; and, after their fashion, they had yielded to the mysterious fascination of the abyss.” I LIKE DOGS MORE THAN HUMANS QUOTES

“All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz.”

“Kurtz’s methods had touched the extreme.”

“You can’t judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man.”

“He [Kurtz] was not inhuman. He wanted to break the spell. His was an impenetrable darkness.”

“The wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance.”

“Kurtz had delivered himself from the power of darkness.”

“It [the wilderness] had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude.”

“The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.”

“We broke down—as I had expected—and had to lie up for repairs at the head of an island…locked in a cellar with some lunatic. He said he had been shot in the back. This was horrible.”

“Anything approaching the change that came over his [Kurtz’s] features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again.”