E. M. Forster Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Joy, Preparation

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

• It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

  E. M. Forster

  Fall, School, Justice

  Abinger Harvest "Notes on English Character" (1936)

• George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

  E. M. Forster

  Flower, Blue, Views

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.60, 谷月社

• In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Men, August

• One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Home, Men

  E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

• Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, August, Poetry

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.211, RosettaBooks

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