E. M. Forster Quotes

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.

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

We must be willing to let go of the
life we have planned, so as to have the life
that is waiting for us.

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

So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.

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

Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Railway termini. They are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

It is a period between two wars—the long week-end it has been called.

Yes—oh dear yes—the novel tells a story.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.