Heart of Darkness Madness Quotes Page 13

"One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him [Kurtz] say a little tremulously, 'I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.' The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced myself to murmur, 'Oh, nonsense!' and stood over him as if transfixed." (3.41)

"He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision – he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:

'The horror! The horror!'" (3.42-43)