Graham Greene Quotes

Graham Greene (40)

Birth:	2nd October, 1904
Death:	3rd April, 1991
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Playwriter

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• 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

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• 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

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• We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

  Graham Greene

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  People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.

  Graham Greene

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• Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

  Graham Greene

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• When we are not sure, we are alive.

  Graham Greene

• Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  Graham Greene

• Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

  Graham Greene

• They are always saying God loves us. If that’s love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.

  Graham Greene

• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

  Graham Greene

• The world doesn’t make any heroes anymore.

  Graham Greene

• The truth 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

• The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn’t thought about. At that moment he’s alive and you leave it to him.

  Graham Greene

• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

  Graham Greene

• The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

  Graham Greene

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

  Graham Greene

• Sentimentality – that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.

  Graham Greene

• Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

  Graham Greene

• People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.

  Graham Greene

• Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It’s the same thing.

  Graham Greene