Graham Greene

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. ↗

— Graham Greene

#religion #religion

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. ↗

— Graham Greene

#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life

As long as one suffers one lives. ↗

— Graham Greene

#suffering #life

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. ↗

— Graham Greene

#motivational

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. ↗

— Graham Greene

#come #journalism #just #mean #media

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

— Graham Greene

#life

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana. ↗

— Graham Greene

#humor

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? ↗

— Graham Greene

#hope #inspirational #faith

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life