Life Quotes by Graham Greene

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

— Graham Greene

“The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.”

— Graham Greene

“Nothing in life was as ugly as death.”

— Graham Greene

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

— Graham Greene

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

— Graham Greene

“I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health.”

— Graham Greene

“I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.”

— Graham Greene

“The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.”

— Graham Greene

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

— Graham Greene

“There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.”

— Graham Greene

“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

“Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.”

— Graham Greene

They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer…

— Graham Greene

“And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.”

— Graham Greene

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about…

— Graham Greene

“He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?”

— Graham Greene

One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can…

— Graham Greene

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is…

— Graham Greene

“New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might…

— Graham Greene

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that…

— Graham Greene

“Ordinary life goes on - that has saved many a man's reason. Just as in an air-raid it proved impossible to be…

— Graham Greene

“Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done…

— Graham Greene

“If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have…

— Graham Greene

It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t…

— Graham Greene

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged…

— Graham Greene

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about…

— Graham Greene

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection…

— Graham Greene

“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in…

— Graham Greene

“Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those…

— Graham Greene

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

— Graham Greene

“But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”

— Graham Greene

“The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.”

— Graham Greene

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

— Graham Greene

“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.”

— Graham Greene

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly…

— Graham Greene

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

— Graham Greene

“I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such…

— Graham Greene

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

— Graham Greene

“Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone…

— Graham Greene

“Nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if…

— Graham Greene