Graham Greene Mind Quotations

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.