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Graham Greene quotes about time

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

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I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy."You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time."That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all."You'd make my bed for me?"Perhaps. Graham Greene
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. Graham Greene
He had opened the book at random several times, seeking a sortes Virgilianae, before he chose the sentences on which his code was to be based. 'You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall.' It was as if in choosing that passage, he were transmitting a signal of defiance to both the services. The last word of the message, when it was decoded by Boris or another, would read 'goodbye. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a..."
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. Graham Greene
I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness. It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet... He might be a poor lover, but I was a poor man. He had in his hand the infinite riches of respectability Graham Greene
Suddenly I realized she was asleep. Exhausted by her flight she had fallen asleep against my shoulder as so many times, in taxis, in buses, on a park-seat. I sat still and let her be. There was nothing to disturb her in the dark church. The candles napped around the virgin, and there was nobody else there. The slowly growing pain in my upper arm where her weight lay was the greatest pleasure I had ever known. Graham Greene
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. Graham Greene
Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked. Graham Greene
In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There will be plenty of other causes. You and me and poor Jones will not even figure in a footnote. It will be all economics, politics, battles. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of..."
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time. Graham Greene
She had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one ‘you’ in the world and that was me. 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
Graham Greene quote: "I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are..."
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence..."
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most..."
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. Graham Greene

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