It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
More Graham Greene Quotes
-
-
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENE -
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 -
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE -
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE -
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
GRAHAM GREENE -
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE -
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE -
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 -
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE -
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 wring its neck.
GRAHAM GREENE -
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE -
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE