Heart of Darkness Quotes.

1. "It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2. "We live as we dream--alone...."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

3. "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 means."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

4. "Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

5. "No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

6. "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 inextinguishable regrets."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

7. "He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

8. "The mind of man is capable of anything."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

9. "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

10. "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a 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 being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone..."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness