Quotes of Graham Green - somelinesforyou

“ It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ”

- Graham Greene

“ In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. ”

- 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 fear which is inherent in a human situation. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. ”

- Graham Greene

“ It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. ”

- Graham Greene

“ I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? ”

- Graham Greene

“ If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. ”

- Graham Greene

“ I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. ”

- 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

“ If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezingpoint of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. ”

- Graham Greene

“ As long as one suffers one lives. ”

- Graham Greene

“ You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. ”

- Graham Greene

“ If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezingpoint of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? ”

- Graham Greene

“ What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. ”

- Graham Greene

“ I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist. ”

- Graham Greene

“ You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. ”

- Graham Greene

“ I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. ”

- Graham Greene

“ If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it. ”

- Graham Greene

“ How often the priest had heard the same confessionMan was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilizationit needed a God to die for the halfhearted and the corrupt. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditchwater. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around. ”

- Graham Greene

“ You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truththat God knows nothing. ”

- Graham Greene

“ The truth, he thought, 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

“ Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας. ”

- Graham Greene
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