E. M. Forster

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Letting Go #Inspirational Life #Sleep

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Football #Motivation #Passion

“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.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Love #Romantic #Romance

“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Friendship #Trust #Real Friends

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
-- E. M. Forster

#Stars #Wind #Tree

“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Art #Believe #Order

“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Believe #Caring #People

“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Life #Memories #Understanding

“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Adventure

“It isn't possible to love and to part.”
-- E. M. Forster

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Inspirational #Education #Running

“Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Romance #Pairs #Unexpected

“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Book #Reading #Long

“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Life And Love #Giving #Want

“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Falling In Love #Writing #Men

“How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”
-- E. M. Forster

#Writing #Thinking #Literature

“At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Stars #Night #Hills

“I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Running #Strong #Men

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Sight #Criminals #Firsts

“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Poetry #Together #Literature

“Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Chance #Novel #Humans

“When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Remembered

“At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Book #Night #Fire

“But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Causes #India #Asking

“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.”
-- E. M. Forster

#People #Wells #Nothingness

“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Race #Curiosity #Mind

“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
-- E. M. Forster

#History #Emotion #Certain

“I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Thinking #Helping #Admire

“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.”
-- E. M. Forster

#Evil #Temptation #Looks

“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.”
-- E. M. Forster

#People #Trying #Novelists