Quotes about Understanding
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
— Graham Greene
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
— Graham Greene
They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .
— Graham Greene
You'd taken my disbelief into Your love, keeping them to show me later, so that we could both laugh.
— Graham Greene
Married people grow like each other.
— Graham Greene
He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.
— Graham Greene
A frigid woman is never jealous, you simply haven't caught up yet on ordinary human emotions.
— Graham Greene
he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
— Graham Greene
You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.
— Graham Greene
The more we know the more we love.
— Graham Greene
He never listened while his wife talked.
— Graham Greene
Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.
— Graham Greene