Heart of darkness Quotes

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

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

“His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.”

“...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.”

“Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.”

“And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.”

“Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards.”

“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, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew.”

“Beneath the handsome exterior beats a heart of darkness.”

“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”

“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”