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Graham Greene quotes about life

British Playwright, Writer October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991

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One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books. Graham Greene
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 have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something..."
I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about. Graham Greene
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed? Graham Greene
He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. (The Power and the Glory) Graham Greene
She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to. Graham Greene
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. Graham Greene
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death. Graham Greene
I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one`s an outsider looking on, it`s all such a bore. Graham Greene
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the..."
The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "The more bare a life is, the more we fear change."
The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to..."
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time..."
And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed. Graham Greene

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