When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity…
Graham Greene
Related He died with one thought in mind -- love one another. GAVIN DE BECKER She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he k... VIRAJ J. MAHAJAN After a time he found and opened a book he had been reading that he had expected to end well, a roma... RICHARD FLANAGAN When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though... ROBIN WILLIAMS I've been grooming him since age 8. I knew when he was very young that with his speed, he had the po... JEFFERY SMITH No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He ... TRENTON LEE STEWART Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th... BILL COSBY Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do,... CATHERINE MCAULEY I wish I had better insight to realize the financial strain he was under. He really wanted to help h... ANTHONY GRANT I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to igno... ERNEST HEMINGWAY But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had chan... NICHOLAS SPARKS When I learned that, I knew it was a sign that he was OK and happy and had died doing what he loved. IDA TINGUELY If you understand that you understand art. When Renoir died he said, 'I never got to do the good pai... AARON YOUNG He wouldn't let me do that if he'd have died I'd have died with him, he stuck there with me thick an... KENNETH ULMER He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow. ELIZABETH GILBERT He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love t... GUILLAUME MUSSO Everything was perfect, the feeling was mutual. I'm not sure what changed but it feels like you've d... MONIKA JOANNA ORAWIEC Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would s... LEMONY SNICKET At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. Wha... LARRY MCMURTRY The Pope knew and understood this best as he had been dealing with Jews and Muslims in an extraordin... ISRAEL SINGER Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w... MICHAEL MCDOWELL He was a boy in love with a wildfire. Or at least he thought he was SARAH J. MAAS He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had be... ANNE BRONTë My dad was a drummer on the weekends when he was young. Being a kid in the '50s, he got bitten by th... KEITH URBAN Because Adam practised at many things, Adam was good at many things, but this – what was it even c... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eye... ALICE HOFFMAN His right hemisphere had died. He knew so many people who had died that in his present state of diss... IAN MCEWAN I wish Adam had died with all ribs in his body DION BOUCICAULT And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusu... NICHOLAS SPARKS I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and m... LEIGH BARDUGO My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than... LEO TOLSTOY He didn't know what he'd done to deserve her love, but he thanked the Lord he had it. Then again, wh... ANN H. GABHART Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the diffe... J.K. ROWLING You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents... SRI CHINMOY God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children... NICHOLAS SPARKS He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choic... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ His brother, he thinks, was in love with everyone he knew. JOHN COREY WHALEY When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a l... RAY BRADBURY For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him... LOIS LOWRY His mind drifted back to times past. He missed the companionship of his old pack. He had grown up in... ALAN KINROSS He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be... WALLIS HUTCHKO He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn... JANE BIRKIN Too much power. Too much. Even the Blood weren’t meant to wield this much power. Even Witch had ne... ANNE BISHOP Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the res... ORHAN PAMUK He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the mome... SARAH J. MAAS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS We love Nelson because, like real heroes, he was not perfect. He could be vain and he had his flaws ... ALAN WEST We love Nelson because, like real heroes, he was not perfect. He could be vain and he had his flaws ... ADMIRAL SIR ALAN WEST This was something he'd done a great deal of when he was very young, so young the memory was washed ... HEIDI CULLINAN He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with... FRANçOIS LELORD But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he wh... BIBLE It's a damn shame that when I finally fall in love that it had to be after I died." He dropped his h... JANAE MITCHELL Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which ca... JOHN RALSTON SAUL He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, ... MICHAEL ENDE When I got a call earlier this morning, I was completely astounded. The fact that it is happening, a... INGRID SEWARD Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahre... VICTOR VILLANUEVA I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful ... JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY Jordan is a natural comic. He is always making people laugh. After the love and excitement with my f... DESIREE GARCIA Presently comfort came to him, and he thought the she had always given him of her strength though he... ANYA SETON When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult... JASHON P My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ... BRIAN BLESSED She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. SUSAN WIGGS He is not being looked at in any particular way, except that he was in contact with the victim befor... MARGIE LONG He was a big man, about 6-5. He had this leadership aura about him. You knew he was in charge. He wa... DALLAS GREEN Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo... PATSY KENSIT The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you wer... CASSANDRA CLARE Another boy died in my arms, he had severe chest injuries. he was sitting in a Chinese restaurant, h... MICHAEL HARTLICH It didn't have anything to do with him being elected. It wasn't something that he was taught to do. ... JIMMY JOHNSON Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in... ROBERT KENNEDY Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like every... GASTON LEROUX He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ... PATRICK DOWNES Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had ... MELANIE DICKERSON I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t... ALAN J. HEEGER I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having claw... JOHN STEINBECK To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like ever... GASTON LEROUX You have to be patient with him. Travis doesn't remember much about it, but he was close to his mom,... JAMIE MCGUIRE He was really nice. He was like, 97, when he died. He was also a good golfer. He had eye cancer for ... ANDREW KRIEG I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over ... ANDY WARHOL I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't ... ELIZABETH CHANDLER Soldiers have told me he was a true warrior, had no fear of death, but had a love for life. They sai... RUSSELL HAWKINS She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how ... ELMER RICE He was comforted by one of the simpler emotions which some human beings are lucky enough to experien... NOEL ANNAN I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ... PUSHA T He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE People fell in love, and lost, and moved on. He didn’t know why he couldn’t. He didn’t know wh... CASSANDRA CLARE Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had onc... J.K. ROWLING That was love. I didn't think he should've gotten arrested for that. If was her dying wish, you got ... JASON ADAMS Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but alw... PAUL HOFFMAN He loved her. Jay Heaton, her best friend since childhood was in love with her. He didn't say i... KIMBERLY DERTING The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot ... ERIN GRUWELL It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be... LAILA ALI I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something,... LEO TOLSTOY
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GRAHAM GREENE Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ... GRAHAM GREENE We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s... GRAHAM GREENE Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. GRAHAM The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea... BRIAN GREENE No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. BRIAN GREENE The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i... BRIAN GREENE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus... BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t... BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab... BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na... BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ... BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo... BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s... BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans... BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor... BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa... BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo... BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ... SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane. ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin... NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib... ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ... ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good. ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that. ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott... ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con... ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens. ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do. ALAN GREENE