black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

E. M. Forster

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTER

Feed Long Nothing Run Shape Some Spoon Teach
Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
E. M. FORSTER

Distinguish Drama Learn Life Something
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.
E. M. FORSTER

Book Describe Dull Exaggerate Interesting Life Most Nothing Obliged Talk
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTER

Kingdom Music World
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E. M. FORSTER

Answer Life Love Made Moment Seldom Think Which World
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. FORSTER

Cast Follow Good Move Place Save Shadow Something Stand Thing
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
E. M. FORSTER

Gate Glorious Railway Terminal Unknown
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTER

Believe Individual People Teach Understand
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTER

Attain Book Collective Curtain Dignity Drawn Ficker Fire Night
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
E. M. FORSTER

Equipped Impressive Inconsistency Pity Proud Same
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
E. M. FORSTER

Carnal Century Embracement Fudss Made Marriage Nearer Sometimes Think Understanding
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTER

Back Come May You
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTER

Know Say See Think What
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTER

Crate Historian Novelist Record
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
E. M. FORSTER

Against Elbow Embankment Identity Learn Likewise Magic Parapet Position Stop Times
I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
E. M. FORSTER

Attempt Can Difficult Easy Entice Only Relation

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More E. M. Forster Quotes