“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

— E. M. Forster, Pharos and Pharillon (1923)

About E. M. Forster

1879 – 1970

English novelist, author of "A Room with a View" and "A Passage to India".

“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it.”

“Poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.”

“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”

“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger.”

“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

“The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.”

“Yes, as my swift days near their goal 'Tis all that I implore In life and death a chainless soul With courage to endure.”