Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

— Graham Greene

Dominant was of more value for a true traveler than a jet plane. Jet planes were for businessmen.

— Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

— Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

— Graham Greene

Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid to like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look at the little I will be leaving.

— Graham Greene

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Score later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

— Graham Greene

Failure too is a form of death.

— Graham Greene

For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief—it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle, that no ill had yet come to Sarah's child. Then a sonic boom scattered the words of the hymn and shook the old glass of the west window and rattled the crusader's helmet which hung on a pillar, and he was reminded again of the grown-up world. He went quickly out and bought the Sunday papers. The Sunday Express had a headline on the front page—"Child's Body Found in Wood.

— Graham Greene

For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it’s not so difficult to be a saint. It’s something He can demand of us, leap.

— Graham Greene

For writers, it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

— Graham Greene