E. M. Forster Quotes

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

Kids are the most beautiful beings that can come into your life.

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his eye so totally; just a butterfly, its beautiful colors, and he is enchanted; the rainbow in the sky... and he cannot conceive that there can be anything more significant, richer than this rainbow. And the night full of stars, stars beyond stars... Innocence is rich, it is full, it is pure.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.