When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself...” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“We live as we dream--alone…” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“On 7 October 1909 E. D.Morel, head of the Congo Reform Association,wrote A. Conan Doyle, a member, that Conrad's story [Heart of… — Hunt Hawkins Copy Share Image
Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film. — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the peacemakers who run to the sound of the gun, who in the heart of darkness have but one message… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What was missing in all of them, he thought, was a recognition of Africans as people with projects—lives they were leading, aspirations… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I… — helen keller Copy Share Image
I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters,"… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts… — Jason K. Stearns Copy Share Image
Once, evil was simply perceived as that which man did not understand. Now however, he understands it all too well. Evil is… — The Undertaker Copy Share Image
“I suppose I am talking about just that: the ambiguity of belonging to a generation distrustful of political highs, the historical irrelevancy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity.… — Stephen Ross Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“Be grateful that you can't comprehend the heart of darkness", he said quietly. "Therein is the quick path to madness.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The heart of darkness is to be found not on the ground where evil deeds are done, but within the great institutions… — Jovan Autonomašević Copy Share Image
“Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image