Graham Greene Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

  Graham Greene

  Beautiful, Children, Home

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

• Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

  Graham Greene

  Animal, Mind, Despair

  Graham Greene (1990). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

• It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.

  Graham Greene

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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