To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. FORSTERTo make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. FORSTEROne must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERThere 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. FORSTERAziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
E. M. FORSTERThe only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. FORSTERSo I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTERLife is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTERWhat is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERPeople have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTERWhen 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. FORSTERI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERThink before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER