Room With A View Quotes

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?

It isn’t possible to love and to part.

It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

This desire to govern a woman — it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together…. But I do love you surely in a better way then he does.” He thought. “Yes — really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror–on thethings that I might have avoided.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes–a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

I can’t do it. I’ve been here before and it’s not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don’t withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn’t a relationship, it’s the bond between master and slave.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.