Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
Graham GreeneRead
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Belief can be both an intoxicating and consuming force, similar to the experience of falling in love.
This quote by Graham Greene suggests that belief, much like love, can envelop a person and affect them deeply. It can spread uncontrollably, resembling a disease that one cannot escape once it takes hold, underscoring the profound impact that belief can have on an individual's life and emotions.
Themes
BeliefLoveEmotionImpactIntensity
In practice
Example use cases
In a romantic setting, expressing your passion for a partner can include referencing how belief can enhance love.
More from Graham Greene
All quotes →It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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