Author: E. M. Forster

Quotes

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

- E. M. Forster

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

- E. M. Forster

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

- E. M. Forster

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

- E. M. Forster

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

- E. M. Forster

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

- E. M. Forster

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

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

- E. M. Forster

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

- E. M. Forster

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

- E. M. Forster

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