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
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 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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there… — 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 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
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
“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
“I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet...He might be a poor lover,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem… — 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
“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
“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