I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.