Heart of Darkness Quotes

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

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:fear foolishness

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:strength power weakness

“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:strength imagination

“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:understanding meaning

“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:understanding

“I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:reality work

“They were common everyday words—the familiar, vague sounds exchanged on every waking day of life. But what of that? They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:words dream

“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life....”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:belief loneliness

“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:future man past mind imagination

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:loneliness madness

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