It's a good world if you don't weaken. Graham Greene More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From Graham Greene You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns. Graham Greene victory mean promise Doing nothing, badly. Graham Greene doing-nothing Death was far more certain than God. Graham Greene certain I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. Graham Greene motive trouble men Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason. Graham Greene goes-on ordinary men I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love. Graham Greene caught disease belief He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood. Graham Greene contact children blood We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts. Graham Greene forgiving ifs facts What happens if you drop all the things that make you I? Graham Greene ifs happens Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. Graham Greene despair mind animal It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. Graham Greene animal people thinking To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. Graham Greene lonely comfort memories I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps. Graham Greene hate mind sleep He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. Graham Greene territory liars lying Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. Graham Greene remembrance childhood pain This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country. Graham Greene land europe country Destruction after all is a form of creation. Graham Greene chaos creation destruction Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. Graham Greene fog faith love We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them. Graham Greene details stories remember Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong. Graham Greene cases priests long
