Graham Greene: Trending quotes (page 2)

“A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.”

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

“Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises …”

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Innocence is a kind of insanity”

“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

“You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.”

“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”

“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.”

“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”

“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…”

“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”

“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”

“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”