Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the… — 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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had opened the book at random several times, seeking a sortes Virgilianae, before he chose the sentences on which his code… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I hated her because I wished to think she didn’t love me: I wanted to get her out of my system. What… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“...I didn't know it buy You moved in the pain. I said, "let him be alive,' not believing in You, and my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“We most of us hesitate to make so complete a statement - we remember and we foresee and we doubt. She had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard,… — 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