Heart of Darkness Quotes

“We live, as we dream—alone...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:life loneliness dream

“Kurtz—Kurtz—that means short in German—don't it? Well, the name was as true as everything else in his life—and death.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:life

“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—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:life meaning

“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:death

“It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:truth women reality

“I think the knowledge came to him at last—only at the very last.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:time knowledge

“We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:freedom

“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:fear

“You know 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.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:fear

“Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:fear foolishness

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