Only connect!

E. M. Forster · The source reads: “Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.”

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

E. M. Forster

Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him.

E. M. Forster · Forster's narrator in Howards End.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

E. M. Forster · The Longest Journey (1907)

More Love Quotes

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks · The heart of her argument that love is something we do, from the chapter that defines it.

I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.

Ronald Reagan · The source reads: “The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.” · Reagan's twentieth anniversary letter to Nancy, joking that they had been married twenty minutes, not twenty years.