Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.” — 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
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Then he allowed himself to strike, like his childhood hero Allan Quatermain, off on that long slow underground stream which bore him… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“An enormous emotion beat on him; it was like something trying to get in, the pressure of gigantic wings against the glass.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I… — 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
