Graham Greene Quotes

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

They would grow old. They would forget me.

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

History can just be so unkind as time passes.