Graham Greene: Quotes about love

Graham Greene was English writer, playwright and literary critic. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Source: The Ministry of Fear

“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.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“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.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

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

Graham Greene book The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“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 book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“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 book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

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

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

Graham Greene

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

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“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.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

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

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

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

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“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.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

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

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“You cannot love without intuition.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“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 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.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“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.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter