black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Graham Greene

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE

Change Dangerous Greatness
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Goodness Innocence Save
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Graham Greene Quotes