Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. Forster
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
Biographer
Essayist
Librettist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
EM Forster
Never
Romance
Love
Poet
Eternal
Transmute
Possible
Muddle
Wish
Poets
Experience
Ignore
Part
Pull
Right
Romantic
More quotes by E. M. Forster
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
E. M. Forster
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
E. M. Forster
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
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
E. M. Forster
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
E. M. Forster
All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
E. M. Forster
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
E. M. Forster
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster
The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
E. M. Forster
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
E. M. Forster
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
E. M. Forster
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster
Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.
E. M. Forster
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge the poor cannot afford it.
E. M. Forster
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. Forster
They had nothing in common but the English language.
E. M. Forster
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
E. M. Forster
Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.
E. M. Forster
