Graham Greene Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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

• There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Alcohol, Understanding

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

• Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.

  Graham Greene

  Life, Children, Husband

• It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Understanding, Tasks

  Graham Greene, Marie-Françoise Allain (1991). “Conversations with Graham Greene”

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