Graham Greene

When we are not sure, we are alive. ”

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. ”

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. ”

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. ”

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ”

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ”

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. ”

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ”

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ”

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ”