Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEPoint me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENEWe can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
GRAHAM GREENEI hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENEPity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEI had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEHer 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