Best Graham Greene Thoughts
- It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and… Bleeding
- They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A… Been
- It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed… Been
- When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another.… Affection
- People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way… All
- You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God… Always Possible
- He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound… Ache
- Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And… Any
- It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,… Angle
- We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us. Accustomed
- Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God. Any
- They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few… Amputated
- As long as one suffers one lives. Inspirational
- Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. Beleaguered
- As long as nothing happens anything is possible... Happens
- Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends. Been
- Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. Absence
- I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that… All
- You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other... Each
- I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought. Funny
- The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her. Best
- There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. Brother
- O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever. Alone
- ...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden… Course
- How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between… Been
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