Quotes by Greene, Graham

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity >>

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. >>

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. >>

Quotations about Suicide

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses >>

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suici >>

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets throu >>

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

Greene, Graham