Graham Greene Quotes on Life
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I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.
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Thrillers are like life-more like life than you are ... it's what we've all made of the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.