Quotes from E.M. Forster

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Only connect!

I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him.

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

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

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

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

there are shadows because there are hills.

Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.

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

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.

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.

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

Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.