“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”

— E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, 1908

About E. M. Forster

1879 – 1970

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

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

“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.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”