717 Quotes by Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

It would be better if I called you,’ she told me, and caution, I thought,caution, how well she knows how to conduct an affair like this, and Iremembered again the stair that always - ‘always’ was the phrase she hadused -squeaked.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?

She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape––anywhere––for anyone? It was worth murdering a world.

I loved a man," she said. "I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.