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 The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”
Graham Greene buch The Power and the Glory
Quelle: The Power and the Glory
“A man kept his character even when he was insane.”
Graham Greene buch The Ministry of Fear
Quelle: The Ministry of Fear
“You cannot love without intuition.”
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Quelle: The Quiet American
“What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Quelle: The Quiet American
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
“He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.”
Quelle: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
“He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.”
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Quelle: The Quiet American
Graham Greene buch The Third Man
Quelle: The Third Man (1949)
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock
Quelle: Brighton Rock
“God save us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good.”
Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner
Pt. I, ch. 1, pg 15
Quelle: The Quiet American (1955)
“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”
Graham Greene buch The Power and the Glory
Quelle: The Power and the Glory
“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”
Graham Greene buch The Ministry of Fear
Quelle: The Ministry of Fear
“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge
Quelle: The Heart of the Matter
“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
“[Ida] "…It's a good world if you don't weaken."”
Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock
Quelle: Brighton Rock (1938)
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair
Quelle: The End of the Affair
