The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.
E.M. Forster
Immortality, Society, Assumptions, Humanity, Resilience, Authenticity
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More E.M. Forster Quotes
“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.” E.M. Forster
Connection, Human Experience, Complexity, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth, Social Reflection
E.M. Forster Connection, Human Experience, Complexity, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth, Social Reflection“Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.” E.M. Forster
Triviality, Maurice, Touch, Imperfect, Two, Love
E.M. Forster Triviality, Maurice, Touch, Imperfect, Two, Love“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea.” E.M. Forster
Perception, Human Nature, Complexity, Social Reflection, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth
E.M. Forster Perception, Human Nature, Complexity, Social Reflection, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth“Ideas are fatal to caste.” E.M. Forster
Innovative Thinking, Social Change, Progressive Ideas, Breaking Boundaries, Equality, Transformation
E.M. Forster Innovative Thinking, Social Change, Progressive Ideas, Breaking Boundaries, Equality, Transformation“I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.” E.M. Forster
Admiration, Acceptance, Individual Worth, Complexity, Appreciation, Tolerance
E.M. Forster Admiration, Acceptance, Individual Worth, Complexity, Appreciation, Tolerance“Logic! Good Gracious! What Rubbish!” E.M. Forster
Critical Thinking, Intellectual Debate, Rationality Critique, Logic, Rubbish, Gracious
E.M. Forster Critical Thinking, Intellectual Debate, Rationality Critique, Logic, Rubbish, Gracious“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.” E.M. Forster
Witful Expression, Rebellious Artistry, Irony, Identity Defiance, Humor, Self-Discovery
E.M. Forster Witful Expression, Rebellious Artistry, Irony, Identity Defiance, Humor, Self-Discovery“The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete – the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art – throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb. Not thus had she played on the little draped piano at the Bertolini, and “Too much Schumann” was not the remark that Mr. Beebe had passed to himself when she returned.” E.M. Forster
Melody, Sadness, Incomplete, Art, Musical Emotion, Human Imperfection
E.M. Forster Melody, Sadness, Incomplete, Art, Musical Emotion, Human Imperfection“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.” E.M. Forster
Love, Connection, Creativity, Human Experience, Artistic Challenge, Inner Landscape
E.M. Forster Love, Connection, Creativity, Human Experience, Artistic Challenge, Inner Landscape“The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.” E.M. Forster
Sun Declining, Premonition, Trees, Night, Held, Declining
E.M. Forster Sun Declining, Premonition, Trees, Night, Held, Declining“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.” E.M. Forster
Maturity, Growth, Learning Curve, Critique Of Sophistication, Life Lessons, Personal Development
E.M. Forster Maturity, Growth, Learning Curve, Critique Of Sophistication, Life Lessons, Personal Development“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“There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.” E.M. Forster
Self-awareness, Introspection, Growth, Fulfillment, Clarity, Purpose
E.M. Forster Self-awareness, Introspection, Growth, Fulfillment, Clarity, Purpose“For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.” E.M. Forster
Social Reflection, Human Nature, Complexity, Perception, Inner Landscape, Social Perspective
E.M. Forster Social Reflection, Human Nature, Complexity, Perception, Inner Landscape, Social Perspective“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.” E.M. Forster
Fulfillment, Deep Satisfaction, Life Goals, Connection, Growth, Joy
E.M. Forster Fulfillment, Deep Satisfaction, Life Goals, Connection, Growth, Joy“In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.” E.M. Forster
Technological Progress, Human Struggles, Progression, Existential Strain, Innovation, Society Evolution
E.M. Forster Technological Progress, Human Struggles, Progression, Existential Strain, Innovation, Society Evolution“Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.” E.M. Forster
Existence, Complexity, Human Experience, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth, Perception
E.M. Forster Existence, Complexity, Human Experience, Inner Landscape, Emotional Depth, Perception“Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions – her own soul.” E.M. Forster
Identity, Self-discovery, Passion, Freedom, Purpose, Soul
E.M. Forster Identity, Self-discovery, Passion, Freedom, Purpose, Soul“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“Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism – that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.” E.M. Forster
Cultural Reflection, Social Perspective, Human Nature, Complexity, Perception, Social Reflection
E.M. Forster Cultural Reflection, Social Perspective, Human Nature, Complexity, Perception, Social Reflection