Graham Greene, The Heart Of The Matter Quotes
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.
I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim