--- title: "15 Ends Quotes By Graham Greene" description: "15 Ends quotes by Graham Greene. Plus more from Graham Greene and more Ends sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16e/graham-greene-441_books_the-subject-of-a-novel-is-not-the-plot-w_859018.jpg" --- > [The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/the-subject-of-a-novel-is-not-the-plot-who-remembers-what-happened-to/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16e/graham-greene-441_books_the-subject-of-a-novel-is-not-the-plot-w_859018.jpg) > [love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/love-had-turned-into-love-affair-with-a-begining-and-an-end/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/graham-greene-441_affair_love-had-turned-into-love-affair-with-a_1667089.jpg) > [You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/you-needn-t-be-so-scared-love-doesn-t-end-just-because-we-don-t-see/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/graham-greene-441_ends_you-needn-t-be-so-scared-love-doesn-t-en_1448319.jpg) > [In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/in-the-end-there-is-no-desire-so-deep-as-the-simple-desire-for/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/graham-greene-441_companionship_in-the-end-there-is-no-desire-so-deep-as_1285918.jpg) > [An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/an-autobiography-is-only-a-sort-of-life-it-may-contain-less-errors-of/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/490/graham-greene-441_autobiography_an-autobiography-is-only-a-sort-of-life_186254.jpg) > [You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/you-must-promise-me-you-can-t-desire-the-end-without-desiring-the/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8f/graham-greene-441_desire_you-must-promise-me-you-can-t-desire-the_2499207.jpg) > [Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/self-expression-is-a-hard-and-selfish-thing-it-eats-everything-even/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5d/graham-greene-441_ends_self-expression-is-a-hard-and-selfish-th_2219343.jpg) > [A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/a-story-has-no-beginning-or-end-arbitrarily-one-chooses-that-moment/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26c/graham-greene-441_creative-process_a-story-has-no-beginning-or-end-arbitrar_1042504.jpg) > [Sometimes I get so tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/sometimes-i-get-so-tired-of-trying-to-convince-him-that-i-love-him/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/graham-greene-441_barristers_sometimes-i-get-so-tired-of-trying-to-co_386942.jpg) > [It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/it-s-strange-how-the-human-mind-swings-back-and-forth-from-one-2/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c93/graham-greene-441_angle_it-s-strange-how-the-human-mind-swings-b_1355841.jpg) > [As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/as-the-end-of-the-what-is-called-the-sexual-life-the-only-love-which/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/graham-greene-441_accepted_as-the-end-of-the-what-is-called-the-sex_2151786.jpg) > [Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/yesterday-i-went-home-with-him-and-we-did-the-usual-things-i-haven-t/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/graham-greene-441_ends_yesterday-i-went-home-with-him-and-we-di_1695625.jpg) > [I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/i-could-have-waited-years-now-that-i-knew-the-end-of-the-story-i-was/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/graham-greene-441_behinds_i-could-have-waited-years-now-that-i-kne_225319.jpg) > [Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/tea-at-college-was-served-on-long-tables-with-an-urn-at-the-end-of/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/graham-greene-441_baguettes_tea-at-college-was-served-on-long-tables_1177119.jpg) > [“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/with-a-novel-which-takes-perhaps-years-to-write-the-author-is-not-the/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/739/graham-greene-441_book_with-a-novel-which-takes-perhaps-years-t_2860606.jpg) ## Other authors on Ends ## More by Graham Greene > [“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/time-gives-poetry-to-a-battlefield/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/what-is-cowardice-in-the-young-is-wisdom-in-the-old-but-all-the-same/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/pity-is-cruel-pity-destroys/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Hate is a lack of imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/hate-is-a-lack-of-imagination/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/despair-is-the-price-one-pays-for-setting-oneself-an-impossible-aim/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/knowledge-was-the-great-thing-not-abstract-knowledge-in-which-dr/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/with-your-great-schemes-you-ruin-our-happiness-like-a-harvester-ruins/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/heresy-is-only-another-word-for-freedom-of-thought/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/he-had-thought-that-home-was-something-one-possessed-but-the-things/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/perhaps-the-comparison-is-closer-to-the-chinese-cook-who-leaves/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/he-said-oh-god-help-her-damn-me-i-deserve-it-but-let-her-live-forever/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/a-police-photograph-is-like-a-passport-photograph-the-intelligence/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/i-tossed-up-whether-i-d-see-the-critic-or-not-i-knew-too-well-the/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/success-is-more-dangerous-than-failure-the-ripples-break-over-a-wider/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/but-we-do-not-love-people-for-what-they-do-for-us-love-happens-to-us/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ends/graham-greene/#itemlist", "name": "15 Ends Quotes By Graham Greene", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The subject of a novel is not the plot. 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