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

“She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom”

“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”

“Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.”

“Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.”

“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.”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”

“Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.”

“It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?”

“We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.”

“When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern.”

“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”