E. M. Forster

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

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.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.