“For he possessed a soul that could suffer but not stifle, and led a steady life beneath his mutability.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“But in public who shall express the unseen adequately? It is private life that holds out the mirror to infinity; personal intercourse,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“...The conversation had become unreal since Christianity had entered it. Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Indeed, he was sensitive rather than responsive. In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They too entered the world of dreams- that world in which a third of each man's life is spent, and which is… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She was parting from these Wilcoxes for the second time. Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Petty unselfishness,” she repeated. “I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Her life, he saw, was without meaning. To what purpose was her diplomacy, her insincerity, her continued repression of vigour? Did they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it--who can… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Your mistake is this, and it is a very common mistake. This young bounder has a life of his own. What right… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’s have both if… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Oh, what's the use of your fairmindedness if you never decide for yourself? Anyone gets hold of you and makes you do what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’ ‘Share? Do you mean unite? If both are… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from the very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only set in… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
