E. M. Forster Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Unless we remember we cannot understand.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Memories, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.133, RosettaBooks

• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Food, Sleep

  "Aspects of the Novel".

• Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Writing, May

• I love love
  I love being in love
  I don't care what it does to me
  The Format, in "Inches and Failing".
  Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Nice, Being In Love

• Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Ordinary, Needs

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 216, to Florence Barger, February 11, 1922.

• Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Relationship, Important

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 19

• One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Two, Worried

• America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, America, Interesting

• Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Sex, Men

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