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

“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”

“I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.”

“Nothing in life was as ugly as death.”

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”

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

“How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively.”

“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.”

“When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.”

“What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.”

“If you truly live, you will never truly die!”

“No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.”