Quotes by E.M. Forster

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.

Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.

I have myself to face a world which is tragic without becoming tragic myself.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

Do they care about Literature and Art? That is the most important when you come to think of it. Literature and Art. Most important.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.