Heart of Darkness Quotes

“But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:youth experience mind travel

“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:youth adventure

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:mind way

“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:light sun

“Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:speech silence

“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:hate

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you ya dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:dreams

“Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:choice

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence—but more generally takes the form of apathy...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:violence grief

“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain—why he did not instantly...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:existence

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