690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

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.

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.