Graham Greene

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

— Graham Greene

#evil #happiness #ignorance #selfishness

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ↗

— Graham Greene

#childhood #door #future #lets #moment

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

— Graham Greene

#love

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. ↗

— Graham Greene

#holidays #christmas

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead. ↗

— Graham Greene

#love

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. ↗

— Graham Greene

#drinking #liquor #relationships #relief #alcohol

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something. ↗

— Graham Greene

#friendship

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life

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. ↗

— Graham Greene

#age

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. ↗

— Graham Greene

#love #marriage #love