… and then beginning to go back to what you can’t even remember.
– Graham Greene
Related Quotes:
- Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
- Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning-”the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever. – Billy Graham
- Some piously record ‘In the beginning God’, but I say ‘In the beginning hydrogen’. – Harlow Shapley
- The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. – Ezra Pound
- There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine. – Charles Lamb
- Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun. – Amit Kalantri
- The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. – HG Wells
- Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity. – CJ Anderson
- Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. – Osho
- Death is not the beginning of an endless deep, dark, silent night but the beginning of a bright, joyful, eternal light. – Debasish Mridha
- A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
- I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
- We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson
- I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different – Graham Greene
- I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. – Graham Greene
- Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something. – Graham Greene
- I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. – Graham Greene
- They killed him because he was too innocent to live. – Graham Greene
- Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again. – Graham Greene
- It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes. – Graham Greene
- Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long. – Graham Greene
- He’s satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can’t be satisfied. – Graham Greene
- A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn’t conceive what it had never experienced – Graham Greene
- He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power. – Graham Greene
- You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced. – Graham Greene
- Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God. – Graham Greene
- She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there. – Graham Greene
- We forget very easily what gives us pain. – Graham Greene
- He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. – Graham Greene
- In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old. – Graham Greene
- A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him. – Graham Greene
- The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
- Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. – Graham Greene
- Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. – Graham Greene
- Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times. – Graham Greene
- There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. – Graham Greene
- Death was far more certain than God. – Graham Greene
- He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. – Graham Greene
- I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home. – Graham Greene
- Opium makes you quick-witted – perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. – Graham Greene