Philosophy Quote by E.M. Forster — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.”

“Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”

“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”

“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”

“You were free, you are free and you will be free.”

“How charming is divine Philosophy!”

“Bolje biti zatucan nego istucan!”

“My depth has no depth”

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”