Quotes about Experience
A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced
— Graham Greene
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
— Graham Greene
One forgets so quickly one's own youth…
— Graham Greene
All good novelists have bad memories.
— Graham Greene
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
— 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
What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.
— Graham Greene
Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.
— Graham Greene
to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory...
— Graham Greene
But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.
— Graham Greene
Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men
— Graham Greene