Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fight

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

All thinking men are atheists.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Every day above earth is a good day.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Trust is earned, not claimed.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

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