E.M. Forster

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

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

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.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.