Philosophy Quote by Graham Greene — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”

“Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive. There is nothing psychologically false about him, but he sticks, he has to be pushed around, words have to be found for him, all the technical skill I have acquired through laborious years has to be employed in making him appear alive to my readers { } He never does the unexpected thing, he never surprises me, he never takes charge. Every other character helps. He only hinders [ ].”

“You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.”

“Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.”

“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.”

“A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.”

“Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”

“If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it”

“The Earth is more than scenery—it is ancestry.”

“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”