“ 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. E.M. Forster
“ To Margaret—I hope that it will not set the reader against her—the station of King’s Cross had always suggested Infinity. Its very situation—withdrawn a little behind the facile splendours of St. Panc… E.M. Forster
“ They were his last words, because Maurice had disappeared thereabouts, leaving no trace of his presence except a little pile of the petals of the evening primrose, which mourned from the ground like a… E.M. Forster
“ The stories of Harmonius and Aristogeiton, of Phaedrus of the Theban Band were well enough for those whose hearts were empty, but no substitute for life. That Clive should occasionally prefer them puz… E.M. Forster
“ Something had changed. He had journeyed—as on rare occasions a man must—till he stood behind right and wrong. On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower. E.M. Forster
“ She was parting from these Wilcoxes for the second time. Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her life and ebbed out of it forever. The ripple had left no traces behind: the wav… E.M. Forster
“ Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with his image. Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclo… E.M. Forster
“ Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence. E.M. Forster
“ Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, hal… E.M. Forster
“ Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. E.M. Forster
“ Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well,… E.M. Forster
“ Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the F… E.M. Forster
“ Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. E.M. Forster
“ I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect - I may say I hope - you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than depl… E.M. Forster
“ How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perh… E.M. Forster
“ He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy. E.M. Forster
“ He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things. E.M. Forster
“ He had robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire. E.M. Forster
“ He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought Am I led; am I leading? Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of… E.M. Forster
