Graham Greene: Citáty anglicky

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”

“Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in… We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”

“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”

“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 condition.”

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”

“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”

“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.”

“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.”

“We forget very easily what gives us pain.”

“When we are not sure, we are alive.”

“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”

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

“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.”

“Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast. The mind too, but it doesn't talk about love.”

“But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and…”

“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”

“A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.”