The quotations of

E. M. Forster

English novelist

1879–1970

29 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Philosophy.

There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.
A Room with a View (1908), Part One, Chapter IIIn context
- Emotion
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
A Room with a View (1908), Part One, Chapter IIIIn context
- Music
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice
A Room with a View (1908), Part Two, Chapter XIVIn context
- Experience
- Life & Death
It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
A Room with a View (1908), Part Two, Chapter XIXIn context
- Love
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Howards End (1910), Chapter 19In context
- Friendship
- Love
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. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
Howards End (1910), Chapter 22In context
- Love
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
Howards End (1910), Chapter 40In context
- Life & Death
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him
Howards End (1910), Chapter 41In context
- Life & Death
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
A Passage to India (1924), Part II: Caves, Chapter XIVIn context
- Life & Death
- Writing
Pathos, piety, courage⁠—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
A Passage to India (1924), Part II: Caves, Chapter XIVIn context
- Philosophy
Except for the Marabar Caves⁠—and they are twenty miles off⁠—the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.
A Passage to India (1924), Part I: Mosque, Chapter IIn context
A mystery is only a high-sounding term for a muddle.
A Passage to India (1924), Part I: Mosque, Chapter VIIIn context
- Philosophy
God has put us on earth to love our neighbours and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding.
A Passage to India (1924), Part I: Mosque, Chapter VIn context
- God
- Love
But suddenly, at the edge of her mind, Religion appeared, poor little talkative Christianity, and she knew that all its divine words from “Let there be Light” to “It is finished” only amounted to “boum.”
A Passage to India (1924), Part II: Caves, Chapter XIVIn context
- Christianity
- Faith

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