"The Green Mile" Quotes
A prison guard reflects on the supernatural events surrounding a death row inmate in 1932.
horror | 592 pages | Published in 1996
Quotes
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
People hurt the ones they love. That's how it all works.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Some things are better lost than found.
Men under strain can snap. Hurt themselves hurt others. That's how it is. Sometimes a crow shitting on a telephone wire looks like a man on a gallows.
We're all crazy, I believe, just to varying degrees.
You can't hide what's in your heart.
We each owe a death - there are no exceptions - but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.
People don't always want something that's good for them.
