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Henry Graham Greene - From the Books category:
- Travels With My Aunt...
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Colour category:
The world is not black and white. More like black and grey. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Curiosity category:
- The Quiet American...
If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Danger category:
Success is more dangerous than failure; the ripples break over a wider coastline. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Danger category:
Success is more dangerous than failure; the ripples break over a wider coastline. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Desperation category:
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Disappointment category:
Most things disappoint till you look deeper. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Doubt category:
When we are not sure, we are alive. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Emotion category:
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Evolution category:
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Faith category:
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Happiness category:
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Happiness category:
In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Health category:
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. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Humanity category:
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Innocence category:
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Memory category:
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Morality category:
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Quotations category:
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Religion category:
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Religion category:
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Silence category:
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Success category:
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Suffering category:
We forget very easily what gives us pain. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Trust category:
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. (Henry Graham Greene)
Henry Graham Greene - From the Writing category:
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. (Henry Graham Greene)
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