...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it…

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

— Jean Giraudoux

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

— Joseph Conrad

“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity. It is…

— Stephen Ross

“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…

— Joseph Conrad

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

— Mary Balogh

“The snake had charmed me”

— Joseph Conrad

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness,…

— Chinua Achebe

“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts of cannibalism…

— Jason K. Stearns

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity…

— Joseph Conrad

“I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed…

— Joseph Conrad

“It was several decades later that I encountered that footnote, and with it my own ignorance of the Congo’s early history. Then it occurred…

— Adam Hochschild

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

— James Patterson

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

— Joseph Conrad