E.M. Forster

"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."

- E.M. Forster

"I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

- E.M. Forster

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

- E.M. Forster

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- E.M. Forster

"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

- E.M. Forster

"I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort."

- E.M. Forster

"You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair."

- E.M. Forster

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."

- E.M. Forster

"Two cheers for democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."

- E.M. Forster

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death."

- E.M. Forster

"I am sure that if the mothers and various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

- E.M. Forster

"Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?"

- E.M. Forster

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

- E.M. Forster