“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.”
Death
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
LifeAll Quotes by E. M. Forster
“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.”
Experience“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.”
Art“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.”
Money“Love is always being given where it is not required.”
Love“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.”
Art“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
Art“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
Death“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
Truth“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
Nature“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”
Freedom“History develops, art stands still.”
Art“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
Faith“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
Women“I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
Hope“The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.”
Poetry“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”
Freedom“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
Respect“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
Hope“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
Faith