E.M. Forster: Trending quotes (page 5)

“I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.”

“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.”

“Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?”

“All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.”

“She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

“At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.”

“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”

“… though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”

“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!”

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

“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”

“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”

“They had nothing in common but the English language.”

“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”

“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”

“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

“Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”