Graham Greene Berühmte Zitate
„Der Mensch ist ein Geschöpf, dem es bestimmt ist, in Katastrophen zu leben.“
Vom Paradox des Christentums
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Der stille Amerikaner, Deutsch von Walther Puchwein. Hamburg 1958, S. 148
Original: "He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity." - The Quiet American, 1955, Part III, chapter 2, page 216.
Graham Greene Zitate und Sprüche
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Der stille Amerikaner. Zsolnay Wien books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=istPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT82&dq=Respekt <br class="br">"what I offer is security and respect. That doesn't sound very exciting, but perhaps it's better than passion." - The Quiet American, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nH4gs8gElOMC&pg=PA70&dq=passion
„Früher oder später muss man Partei ergreifen, wenn man ein Mensch bleiben will.“
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Der stille Amerikaner, Deutsch von Walther Puchwein. Hamburg 1958, S. 281
Original: "Sooner or later … one has to take sides – if one is to remain human." - The Quiet American, Part IV, chapter 2
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene: Zitate auf Englisch
Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock
Quelle: Brighton Rock (1938)
“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“Sooner or later…one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.”
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 230
Quelle: The Quiet American (1955)
“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Quelle: The Quiet American
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”
Graham Greene buch The Power and the Glory
Quelle: The Power and the Glory
“I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Graham Greene buch The Power and the Glory
Pt. I, ch. 1
The Power and the Glory (1940)
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene buch The Power and the Glory
Quelle: The Power and the Glory
“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”
Graham Greene buch The Power and the Glory
Quelle: The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Quelle: The Quiet American
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Quelle: The Quiet American
“As long as one suffers one lives.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Bk. 5, ch. 1
Quelle: The End of the Affair (1951)
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Variante: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”
Graham Greene buch The Comedians
Quelle: The Comedians (1966)
