Frases de E.M. Forster página 4

“Durham no podía esperar. La gente los rodeaba, pero con ojos que se habían vuelto intensamente azules murmuró:
—Que te amo.
Maurice se escandalizó, se horrorizó. Se estremeció hasta las raíces de su alma burguesa, y exclamó:"¡Oh, maldición!" Las palabras, los gestos, surgían de él antes de que pudiera evitarlo.”

Maurice

“Alec no era un héroe ni un dios, sino un hombre inmerso en una sociedad como él, para el que el mar y los bosques y la fresca brisa y el sol no preparaban ninguna apoteosis.”

Maurice

“El amor había fallado. El amor era una emoción a través de la cual podías a veces gozarte a ti mismo. No podía dar frutos.”

Maurice

“Amaba a los hombres y siempre los había amado. Ansiaba abrazarlos, mezclar con el de ellos su ser. Ahora que había perdido al hombre que correspondía a su amor, admitía aquello.”

Maurice

“En ese preciso momento el camino se abría y con una exclamación Lucy se encontró fuera del bosque. Luz y belleza la envolvía. Había ido a dar a una pequeña terraza que estaba cubierta de violetas de un extremo a otro.
- ¡Valor! -exclamó su compañero, erguido a unos seis pies de altura respecto a ella-. Valor y amor.
Ella no respondió. A sus pies el suelo se cortaba bruscamente dando paso a la panorámica. Violetas que se agrupaban alrededor de arroyos y corrientes y cascadas, regando la vertiente de la colina de azul, arremolinándose alrededor de los troncos de los árboles, formando lagunas en los agujeros, cubriendo la hierba con manchas de espuma azulada. Jamás volvería a haberlas en tal profusión. La terraza era el principio de lo bello, la fuente original donde la belleza hacía brotar agua que iba a la tierra.
De pie en el margen, como un nadador que se prepara, estaba el buen hombre. Pero no era el buen hombre que ella había pensado, y estaba solo.
George se había vuelto al oír su llegada. Por un momento la contempló, como si fuera alguien que bajaba de los cielos. Vio la radiante alegría en su cara, las flores que batían su vestido en olas azuladas. Los arbustos que la encerraban por encima. Subió rápidamente hasta donde estaba ella y la besó.
Antes de que ella pudiera decir algo, casi antes de que pudiera sentir nada, una voz llamó: ¡Lucy!, ¡Lucy!, ¡Lucy!. La señorita Bartlett, que era una mancha oscura en la panorámica, había roto el silencio de la vida.”

Maurice

E.M. Forster libro A Room with a View

A Room with a View

“Cuando el amor se desvanece se le recuerda no como amor, sino como algo distinto. Bienaventurados los ignorantes que lo olvidan por completo, y no son conscientes de los anhelos y de los absurdos del pasado, de las largas conversaciones sin propósito.”

“¿Me besarás?— dijo Maurice, mientras los gorriones despertaban sobre ellos en los aleros, y lejos, en los bosques, los palomos comenzaban a arrullarse.”

Maurice

“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”

Maurice

E.M. Forster: Frases en inglés

“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

Fuente: The Life to Come and Other Stories

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”

E.M. Forster libro A Passage to India

Fuente: A Passage to India

“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”

E.M. Forster libro Howards End

Fuente: Howards End

“They had nothing in common but the English language.”

“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”

E.M. Forster libro Howards End

Fuente: Howards End

“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”

E.M. Forster libro Howards End

Fuente: Howards End

“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

E.M. Forster libro Maurice

Fuente: Maurice

“Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”

E.M. Forster libro A Room with a View

Fuente: A Room with a View

“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”

E.M. Forster libro Where Angels Fear to Tread

Fuente: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”

E.M. Forster libro A Passage to India

Fuente: A Passage to India

“Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”

E.M. Forster libro A Room with a View

Fuente: A Room with a View

“We move between two darknesses.”

Fuente: A Room with a View / Howards End

“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”

E.M. Forster libro Aspects of the Novel

Fuente: Aspects of the Novel

“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”

E.M. Forster libro A Passage to India

Fuente: A Passage to India

“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”

E.M. Forster libro Where Angels Fear to Tread

Fuente: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

E.M. Forster libro Maurice

Fuente: Maurice

“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”

E.M. Forster libro A Room with a View

Fuente: A Room with a View

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

E.M. Forster libro Maurice

Fuente: Maurice

“All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.”

E.M. Forster libro Howards End

Fuente: Howards End

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”

E.M. Forster libro Howards End

Fuente: Howards End

“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

E.M. Forster libro A Passage to India

Fuente: A Passage to India

“I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.”

E.M. Forster libro Howards End

Fuente: Howards End

“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”

E.M. Forster libro Maurice

Fuente: Maurice

“You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.”

“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned….”

E.M. Forster libro Where Angels Fear to Tread

Fuente: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”

E.M. Forster libro Maurice

Fuente: Maurice

“It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

E.M. Forster libro Maurice

Fuente: Maurice

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

E.M. Forster libro Howards End

Fuente: Howards End