Quotes about Reflection
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
— Graham Greene
Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.
— 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
Married people grow like each other.
— Graham Greene
and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.
— Graham Greene
I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.
— Graham Greene
Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation
— Graham Greene
and sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to. I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.
— Graham Greene
words like 'mystery' and 'soul' and 'the source of life' came in over and over again, as they sat on the bed talking, with nothing to do and nothing to believe and nowhere better to go.
— Graham Greene
Fear is easily experienced, but fun is hard to come by in old age, so I already felt a sense of gratitude to General Omar Torrijos.
— Graham Greene
How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
— Graham Greene