A Room With A View Quotes

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.”
― E.M. Forster

“Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.”
― E.M. Forster

“Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption of the audience onto the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

“She was like a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.”
― E.M. Forster

“Nothing ever happens to me,” She reflected.”
― E.M.Forster

“The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them”
― E.M. Forester

“Sappiamo di venire dal vento, e di doverci tornare. Sappiamo che la vita tutta è forse un nodo, un groviglio, una macchia sull'uniformità dell'eterno. Ma perché mai questo dovrebbe renderci infelici? Amiamoci, piuttosto, lavoriamo e rallegriamoci. Io non credo nel dolore del mondo.”
― Edward Morgan Forster, A Room with a View