E.M. Forster Quotes

A collection of quotes by E.M. Forster.

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He is best known for his novels, including "A Room with a View" (1908), "Howards End" (1910), and "A Passage to India" (1924). Forster's works often explored themes of class, social conventions, and personal relationships. He was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, a collective of intellectuals and artists. Forster's writing reflected his progressive views on sexuality and society, making him a significant figure in the early 20th-century literary landscape. His works continue to be celebrated for their insightful social commentary and nuanced character portrayals.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it wa

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.

Love Poets Romance

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to unde

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Truth Understanding Paradox

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

Love Despair Separation Parting Ways

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very star

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.

Life Truth God Religion

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answere

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.

Love Classics

He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how s

He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.

Love Relationships

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Sympathy Science Advice Comfort

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things wh

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Beauty

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

Humanity Science

He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his conside

He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.

Hope Love Patience Gay Men Gay Romance

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlet

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

Beauty