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Us Quotes by 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 than a human…
- I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste…
- The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though…
- God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
- We forget very easily what gives us pain.
- I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even…
- When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and…
- 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…
- Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
- Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what…
- We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
- One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel…
- Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there…
- They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
- We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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