336 Quotes by E.M. Forster

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Like all gossip—it's merely one of those half-alive things that try to crowd out real life.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissue with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil.

Nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

You must marry, or your life will be wasted. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you...When I think what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love— Marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.