E. M. Forster Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

  E. M. Forster

  Home, House, Desire

• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

  E. M. Forster

  Horse, Rocks, Views

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

• Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

  E. M. Forster

  Mistake, Earth, Realizing

• If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

  E. M. Forster

  House, Earth, Mansions

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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