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Life Quotes by Graham Greene
- It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- When we are not sure, we are alive.
- Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
- Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human…
- From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next…
- One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain…
- It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.
- He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
- He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by…
- Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we…
- Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on…
- It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons…
- Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
- 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…
- We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle