Graham Greene Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

  Graham Greene

  Simple, Desire, Companionship

  Graham Greene (1967). “May We Borrow Your Husband ?: And Other Comedies of Sexual Life”, Bodley Head Canada

• As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

  Graham Greene

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Simple

  Graham Greene (2010). “May We Borrow Your Husband?”, p.25, Random House

• 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

  Mean, Promise, Victory

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

• Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

  Graham Greene

  Fun, Men, Brain

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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