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

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

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her.”

“Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.”

“Oh, uh-uh," Shaundelle said. "I'm not gonna be no place where no ghost is gonna be knockin' nobody upside the head. I'm outta here. I'm not going to take any chances that some ghost is gonna mess up this pretty face.”

“The trees are bedecked with snow, the air is perfumed; how sweet, how dark the sultry fragrance. Forever hypnotising, always haunting. I want to inhale the fragrance of your skin, drink from your open mouth.”

“Were you born with all your organs intact?” he responds.”

“Liebe macht nicht blind. Der Liebende sieht nur weit mehr als da ist.”

“That's how the universe works: it gives you the one thing you said you'd never want.”