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

“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.”

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

“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”

“Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.”

“Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.”

“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!”

“The masses are not interested in the truth… they want to be entertained.”

“What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?”

“The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.”

“Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.”

“Scepticism is the first step towards truth.”

“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as a way of protecting themselves, and the listener, from the emotional impact of their experience. We have found that people describing trauma in a flat way, without feeling, are usually those who have been more chronically abused, while those with affect still have a sense of self that can observe the tragedy of betrayal and have feelings about it. In some cases, this deadpan presentation can also be the result of cult training and brainwashing. Unfortunately, when a patient describes a traumatic experience without showing any apparent emotion, it can make the listener doubt whether the patient is telling the truth.”