IMPORTANT QUOTES HEART OF DARKNESS

“The horror! The horror!” – Kurtz

“We live, as we dream… alone.” – Marlow

“The mind of man is capable of anything.” – Marlow

“It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are.” – Marlow

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

“I don’t like work…no man does…but I like what is in the work – the chance to find yourself.” – Marlow

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means taking it away from those who have a different complexion…is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.” – Marlow

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other.” – Marlow

“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.” – Marlow

“I had no idea why he wanted to be sociable, but as we chatted in there it suddenly occurred to me the fellow was trying to get at something – in fact, pumping me.” – Marlow

“What did it matter what any one knew or ignored? What did it matter who was manager? One gets sometimes such a flash of insight.” – Marlow

“It’s the last word.” – Marlow

“The great truth is very simple but people don’t like simplicity.” – Marlow

“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.” – Marlow

“By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter.” – Marlow MOTHERS WISDOM QUOTES

“He was very little more than a voice.” – Marlow

“Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn’t touched. I was fascinated.” – Marlow

“Only somberness, and even sadness, brooded over it all.” – Marlow

“I don’t want to know anything of the ceremonies used when approaching Mr. Kurtz’s presence.” – Marlow

“There’s a good lot of cartridges left even yet,” he [the harlequin] said. “Enough to give a good lot of ’em fits.” – Harlequin

“Droll thing life is – that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.” – Marlow

“And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.” – Marlow

“I felt how such a picture would have astonished Kurtz himself.” – Marlow

“I suddenly had about as much conscience as a dog.” – Marlow

“Evil in itself is a far more terrible thing than any evil deed we may fancy people capable of.” – Marlow

“The snake had charmed me.” – Marlow

“I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.” – Marlow

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Marlow