Quotes from Graham Greene

I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But he knew hte falsity of the reasoning; he knew how they taught also that there was nothing to fear in death, and how fearfully they avoided the idea of it.

There's only things, Blackie.

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...' 'Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.' 'I don't remember that.' 'The history books gloss it over.

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

Perhaps all life was like that--dull and then a heroic flurry at the end.

It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.' 2

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

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, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.