“Why are some of us, he wondered, unable to love success or power or great beauty? Because we feel unworthy of them,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other... — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The act of lust and the act of love are the same; it cannot be falsified like a sentiment.” — 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
“I can’t say what made me fall in love with Vietnam - that a woman’s voice can drug you; that everything is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew… — 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
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
My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
