Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

Here's the beautiful lady with the beer.

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

My heart's broken, ' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure, " I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares." "What's the matter? Feel low?""Low as hell.

You're going to have things to repent, boy, ' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish, ” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

He was mad and plenty brave.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

Named Harris, " Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too.""Fortunate fellow, " Mike said. "What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back.

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

One cat just leads to another."[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Hem, ' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about quiet?" "We like it, " said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

- What happens to people that love each other?- I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

You lose it if you talk about it.