E. M. Forster Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.

  E. M. Forster

  Virginia, Light, Missing

• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  E. M. Forster

  Greatness, Men, Blood

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

• In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

  E. M. Forster

  Reading, People, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.98, RosettaBooks

• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

  E. M. Forster

  Pain, Book, Interesting

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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