E. M. Forster Quotes

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

All babies are ugly unless they're your baby.

I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.

Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for everybody else. There's something that makes us feel very special about that; that we could be the one out of everyone who's tried and everybody who's wanted to reach that person - you're the only one who could do it.

I can't for the life of me - and I've tried - love someone like I love my grandmother, my sister and my mom.

Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can’t control or alter true love.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

You love somebody, and then you don't love them anymore. But if you really love somebody, you always love them, don't you? Isn't there always some small part of you that reads their horoscope in the paper everyday?

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

I love my children unconditionally.

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.