Quotes from Graham Greene

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth…

Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together

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 name?

When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.