Quote

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Graham Greene

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
Eternity
Occupying
Strange
Abandonment
Space
Extension
Point
Extensions
Sometimes
Touched
Time
Mathematical
Absence
Endlessness
Seemed
Width

More quotes by Graham Greene

Image
Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
Graham Greene
Image
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
Graham Greene
Image
They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.
Graham Greene
Image
Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
Graham Greene
Image
All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
Graham Greene
Image
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
Graham Greene
Image
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
Graham Greene
Image
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
Graham Greene
Image
The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
Graham Greene
Image
My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
Graham Greene
Image
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
Graham Greene
Image
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Graham Greene
Image
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
Graham Greene
Image
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
Graham Greene
Image
So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
Graham Greene
Image
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
Graham Greene
Image
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
Graham Greene
Image
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene
Image
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
Graham Greene
Image
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.
Graham Greene