Voice

Quote

Character

Chapter

“The voice of the surf... like the speech of a brother.”

Kurtz

1

“[Kurtz] was just word for me.”

Marlow

1

“[Marlow] had been no more to us than a voice”

Narrator

1

“The faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips”

Narrator

1

“I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.”

Marlow

2

“The man presented himself as a voice.”

Marlow

2

“His words... the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.”

Marlow

2

“The memory of that time itself lingers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simply mean, without any kind of sense.

Voices, voices”

Marlow

2

“This was the unbounded power of eloquence – of words – of burning noble words.”

Marlow

2

“A voice! a voice! It was grave, profound, vibrating, while the man did not seem capable of a whisper.”

Marlow

3

“The voice was gone. What else had been there? But I am of course aware that next day the pilgrims buried something in a muddy hole.”

Marlow

3