Quotes - J.N. McGhee (Brandon, MS) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

tags: advice, e-m-forster, essay, fiction, writing

670 likes

#2

“It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.”
― E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey

tags: unkindness

85 likes

#3

“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”
― E.M. Forster

75 likes

#4

“... there are shadows because there are hills.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: life, shadow

100 likes

#5

“If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run”
― E.M. Forster

81 likes

#6

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

1852 likes

#7

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

421 likes

#8

“You confuse what's important with what's impressive.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

327 likes

#9

“You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: homosexual, love

324 likes

#10

“Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”
― E.M. Forster

100 likes

#11

“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

146 likes

#12

“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”
― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: paradox, truth, understanding

170 likes

#13

“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

88 likes

#14

“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: lgbt, life, persecution

132 likes

#15

“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
― E. M. Forster

tags: classics, english-lit, gay-authors

53 likes

#16

“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
― E.M. Forster, The Life to Come and Other Stories

tags: despair, love, parting-ways, separation

63 likes

#17

“We move between two darknesses.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

tags: mind, spirit

34 likes

#18

“...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

69 likes

#19

“It isn’t possible to love and to 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.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: love

51 likes

#20

“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

40 likes

#21

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

tags: human-behavior

52 likes

#22

“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . .”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: life

43 likes

#23

“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

57 likes

#24

“Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

34 likes

#25

“My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.”
― E.M. Forster

26 likes

#26

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

tags: poetry, poverty, statistics

26 likes

#27

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”
― E. M. Forster

tags: gustave-flaubert, misattributed, paul-valery, writing

45 likes

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