Graham Greene: Quotes about love

“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.”

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

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

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

“And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”

“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”

“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”

“We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.”

“My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.”

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

“You cannot love without intuition.”

“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.”

“How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.”

“Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast. The mind too, but it doesn't talk about love.”

“In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.”

“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”