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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
— Ernest Hemingway, How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal
Tagged: Drinking, Alcohol, interesting
“When people die you have to bury them but you do not have to write about it. You do not have to write about an undertake nor all the business of burial. You do not have to write about that day nor the next night of the day after and the night after, and the progress from numbness into sorrow nor all the days after and all the nights after for a life time. In writing you have a certain choice that you do not have in life.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Life, Death
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Tagged: Denial, Life, self, Future
““Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.””
— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden Of Eden
Tagged: Happiness
“The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight.”
— Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Tagged: first lines of books
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Tagged: Gratefulness, Perspective, Adversity
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
Tagged: Losing Yourself
“In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Rivers, Nature
“I actually think an artist should read their negative reviews. To counter balance their own self-serving opinion.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition
Tagged: Life
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“That is all there is to the story. Catherine died and you will die and I will die and that is all I can promise you.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Life
“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories
Tagged: inspiration, Self-Doubt, Going All In, Commitment, Choices, Making Decisions
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
Tagged: Self-improvement, The World, Breaking, Getting Stronger, Writing
“That is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise.
They grow careful.
Perhaps that is wisdom.
It is a very unattractive wisdom.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Life
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Tagged: first lines of books
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
— Ernest Hemingway, No Title
Tagged: Writing, Creativity, Pain, Self-Expression, Poetry
“Write clear and hard about what hurts.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Pain, Writing, Self-Expression,
“All you have to do is write one true sentence.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Complete Poems
Tagged: Writing, Finding The Right Words
“That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?”
— Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Tagged: Emptiness, Boredom, Unfulfilled, Life
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Tagged: travel, Trips, Loved Ones
“I was always embarrassed by words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of the places had dignity...Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers or regiments and the dates.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Life
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Life
“If they believe the critics when they say they are great then they must believe them when they say they are rotten and they lose confidence. At present we have two good writers who cannot write because they have lost confidence through reading critics. If they wrote, sometimes it would be good and sometimes it would be quite bad, but the good would get out. But they have read the critics and they must write masterpieces. The masterpieces the critics said they wrote. They are not masterpieces of course. They were just quite good books. So now they cannot write at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition
Tagged: Life
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