More quotes by Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

"He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death."
"There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief."
"We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance."