At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.
E.M. Forster
Night, Stars, Universe, Benediction, Cosmic Beauty, Ephemeral Moment
E.M. Forster’s Quotes On Topics
Intellectual Debate | Generosity | Quarrels | Howards | Companionship | Planet | Mothers | Cultural Beauty | Balance | Trees | Lavish | Purity | Communication | Humour And Belief | Mundane Existence | Miss Honeychurch | Literary Exploration | Clues | Appeal | Fear Of The Future | More
More E.M. Forster Quotes
“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.” E.M. Forster
Long Novel, Completed, Unpublishable, Death, Almost, Novel
E.M. Forster Long Novel, Completed, Unpublishable, Death, Almost, Novel“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.” E.M. Forster
Poetry Truth, Artistic Interpretation, Poem’s Essence, Poem, Information, Truth
E.M. Forster Poetry Truth, Artistic Interpretation, Poem’s Essence, Poem, Information, Truth“Reverence is fatal to literature.” E.M. Forster
Creativity Limitation, Stagnation, Rebellion, Expression, Risk, Innovation
E.M. Forster Creativity Limitation, Stagnation, Rebellion, Expression, Risk, Innovation“Are not beauty and delicacy the same?” E.M. Forster
Aesthetic Similarity, Sensory Experience, Art Perception, Emotional Sensitivity, Natural Harmony, Perception
E.M. Forster Aesthetic Similarity, Sensory Experience, Art Perception, Emotional Sensitivity, Natural Harmony, Perception“Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life.” E.M. Forster
Mental Growth, Strategic Thinking, Life Challenges, Reflection, Resilience, Self-Discovery
E.M. Forster Mental Growth, Strategic Thinking, Life Challenges, Reflection, Resilience, Self-Discovery“There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.” E.M. Forster
Sorrow, World, Invent, Enough, Human Suffering, Emotional Wisdom
E.M. Forster Sorrow, World, Invent, Enough, Human Suffering, Emotional Wisdom“I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it – and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil. I don’t die – I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m just not there.” E.M. Forster
Fate, Emotional Isolation, Human Experience, Detachment, Personal Journey, Existential Themes
E.M. Forster Fate, Emotional Isolation, Human Experience, Detachment, Personal Journey, Existential Themes“Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.” E.M. Forster
Pity, Woman, Men, Qualities, Gender Dynamics, Emotional Nature
E.M. Forster Pity, Woman, Men, Qualities, Gender Dynamics, Emotional Nature“The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.” E.M. Forster
Perception, Experience, Human Nature, Cultural Reflection, Inner Landscape, Complexity
E.M. Forster Perception, Experience, Human Nature, Cultural Reflection, Inner Landscape, Complexity“How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself – hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth – their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.” E.M. Forster
Love’s Conflict, Eternal Truth, Visible World, Truth, Love, Warfare
E.M. Forster Love’s Conflict, Eternal Truth, Visible World, Truth, Love, Warfare“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.” E.M. Forster
Freedom, People, Grown-up, Practise, Allowed, Eyes
E.M. Forster Freedom, People, Grown-up, Practise, Allowed, Eyes“Beautiful conventions received them – while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips, the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.” E.M. Forster
Convention, Barriers, Desire, Disconnection, Social Expectations, Emotional Conflict
E.M. Forster Convention, Barriers, Desire, Disconnection, Social Expectations, Emotional Conflict“He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice’s spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought “Am I led; am I leading?” Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.” E.M. Forster
Educated, Spirit, Maurice, Love, Emotional Growth, Spiritual Bond
E.M. Forster Educated, Spirit, Maurice, Love, Emotional Growth, Spiritual Bond“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!” E.M. Forster
Global Connectivity, Urban Isolation, Emotional Intimacy, Social Change, Cosmopolitanism, Personal Relationships
E.M. Forster Global Connectivity, Urban Isolation, Emotional Intimacy, Social Change, Cosmopolitanism, Personal Relationships“Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.” E.M. Forster
Vulnerability, Human Nature, Complexity, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth, Social Reflection
E.M. Forster Vulnerability, Human Nature, Complexity, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth, Social Reflection“People never touched one another. The custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine.” E.M. Forster
People, Touched, Machine, Custom, Never, Obsolete
E.M. Forster People, Touched, Machine, Custom, Never, Obsolete“He mourned his wife more sincerely because he mourned her seldom.” E.M. Forster
Grief, Sincerity, Mourning, Love, Loss, Emotional Distance
E.M. Forster Grief, Sincerity, Mourning, Love, Loss, Emotional Distance“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.” E.M. Forster
Passion, Human Nature, Complexity, Emotional Depth, Inner Landscape, Social Reflection
E.M. Forster Passion, Human Nature, Complexity, Emotional Depth, Inner Landscape, Social Reflection“It isn't possible to love and 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
Love, Connection, Human Experience, Emotional Depth, Inner Landscape, Complexity
E.M. Forster Love, Connection, Human Experience, Emotional Depth, Inner Landscape, Complexity