690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.