Graham Greene: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.”

“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.”

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

“We forget very easily what gives us pain.”

“When we are not sure, we are alive.”

“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.”

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”

“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”