Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness? — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the… — 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
I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word… — 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
