E. M. Forster

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.