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 More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From 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 ignorance happiness men Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. Graham Greene congratulations break success One can't love humanity. One can only love people. Graham Greene sociology humanity people She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble. Graham Greene desertion noble sound Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? Graham Greene luxury night thinking There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. Graham Greene jealous brother father So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends. Graham Greene shopping moving-forward writing It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. Graham Greene too-much chocolate mind I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist. Graham Greene hate-you i-hate-you hate Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together. Graham Greene tears discovery relationship 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 mind-love nails clothes Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. Graham Greene clever beautiful war You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other. Graham Greene scared ends I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass. Graham Greene chairs glasses home Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene dumb literature world Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human. Graham Greene sooner-or-later humans sides I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? Graham Greene men mean country They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered. Graham Greene names heart men It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene trust faith relationship 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 dictator misery heart
