What is "The horror, The horror" in Heart Of Darkness?They are the Kurtz dying words.

One of the beautiful elements of Kurtz's final words are
the multiple levels on which they work. Not only is Kurtz reflecting on his own life and
experiences, but he is also commenting on misguided colonization of Africa at this time,
and upon the essential nature of the soul of the human race. In their own ways, each is
a heart of darkness.

Certainly Kurtz has lost his bearings
as his way as an individual. Even the madness or insanity that some reader's see in him
is merely a manifestation of his own downfall. He, himself, is a
"horror."

Likewise, the misguided attempt to colonize and
exploit Africa is also a "horror." Kurtz, perhaps unlike most of the other characters of
the novel, sees just foolish and precarious such a proposition truly is. Africa has no
use for and no reason to tolerate the invasion of the
Europeans.

But, central to the entire work, is Conrad's
comment on the essential nature of the human spirit--the idea that we all are corrupt
and evil at the core and that we merely need the right conditions and triggers to bring
those elements to the surface. The heart of darkness is both a physical place on the
African continent and a spiritual place at the core of the human
soul.