Innocence 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 GREENEWriting 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
-
-
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE -
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
GRAHAM GREENE -
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE -
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
GRAHAM GREENE -
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 -
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE -
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE -
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE -
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE -
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE -
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE