Graham Greene Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Loyalty, Understanding

• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

  Graham Greene

  Pregnancy, Curiosity, Age

  Graham Greene (2011). “A Sort Of Life”, p.98, Random House

• This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.

  Graham Greene

  Country, Europe, Land

• For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Real, Hero

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

• Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Rain, Men

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

• 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

  Heart, Mind, Age

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Believe, Dying

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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