E. M. Forster Quotes

We love even when our love is not requited.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.