8 Graham Greene Quotes on Life

Graham Greene quotes on life

23. I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.

27. Thrillers are like life-more like life than you are ... it's what we've all made of the world.

33. No danger anywhere, it seemed to Rollo Martins of that sudden reckless moment when the scent of hair or a hand against the side alters life.

51. However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance-so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

53. We mustn't complain too much of being comedians-it's an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed-that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

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

61. Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

73. When we are not sure, we are alive.