We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“No shots had been fired; we were alive; death had withdrawn perhaps as far as the next canal.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The Captain turned away from the mirror and said, 'Thank God, I'm not in danger of prison here. I'm only in danger… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The possession of a body tonight seemed a very small thing-perhaps that day I had seen too many bodies which belonged to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“We didn’t want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I think the reason lay partly in his idea of immortality, but I think too it belonged to his war against the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“I tossed up whether I'd see [the critic] or not: I knew too well the pompous phrases of his article, the buried significance he… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.” — Graham Greene Copy Share
