All Quotes By Tag: Howards-end

“Her thought drew being from the obscure borderland. She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. It is necessary to prepare for an examination, or a dinner-party, or a possible fall in the price of stock: those who attempt human relations must adopt another method or fail.”

“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.”

“In this jangle of causes and effects, what had become of their true selves? Here Leonard lay dead in the garden, from natural causes; yet life was a deep, deep river, death a blue sky, life was a house, death a wisp of hay, a flower, a tower, life and death were anything and everything, except this ordered insanity, where the king takes the queen, and the ace the king. Ah, no; there was beauty and adventure behind, such as the man at her feet had yearned for; there was hope this side of the grave; there were truer relationships beyond the limits that fetter us now. As a prisoner looks up and sees stars beckoning, so she, from the turmoil and horror of those days, caught glimpses of the diviner wheels.”

“In other words, they belong to types that could fall in love, but couldn’t live together.”

“Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.”

“Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.”

“She was not a Christian in the accepted sense; she did not believe that God had ever worked among us as a young artisan.”