“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”

“We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!”

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

“And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.”

“Often far away there I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes. Ave! Old knitter of black wool. Morituri te salutant. Not many of those she looked at ever saw her again--not half, by a long way.”

“The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.”

“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”