Ernest Hemingway Quotes: Despite all the difficulties in his life, Hemingway has always been a person who knows how to live to the fullest and love life.
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‘”The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.”‘
‘”We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”‘
‘”I drink to make other people more interesting.”‘
‘”No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”‘
‘”Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”‘
‘”There are worse places to be than on your own.”‘
‘”Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.”‘
‘”Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.”‘
‘”The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”‘
‘”But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”‘
‘”The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”‘
‘”My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.”‘
‘”The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”‘
‘”A big lie is more plausible than truth.”‘
‘”Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.”‘
‘”Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”‘
‘”Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”‘
‘”America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.”‘
‘”Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.”‘
‘”Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”‘
‘”Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.”‘
‘”Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”‘
‘”I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you are yet to be.”‘
‘”You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”‘
‘”Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”‘
‘”Courage is grace under pressure.”‘
‘”The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can not be found.”‘
‘”You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.”‘
‘”There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”‘
‘”Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”‘
‘”The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”‘
‘”Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is”‘
‘”we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”‘
‘”When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”‘
‘”The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”‘
‘”We are stronger in the places that we have been broken.”‘
‘”The shortest answer is doing the thing.”‘
‘”Fascism is a lie told by bullies.”‘
‘”All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”‘
‘”You must be prepared to work always without applause.”‘
‘”You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”‘
‘”Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”‘
‘”When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”‘
‘”Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”‘
‘”I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”‘
‘”There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!”‘
‘”The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”‘
‘”My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”‘
‘”Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.”‘
‘”All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”‘
‘”Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”‘
‘”A bottle of wine was good company.”‘
‘”There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”‘
‘”All bad writers are in love with the epic.”‘
‘”No one you love is ever truly lost.”‘
‘”You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”‘
‘”Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”‘
‘”Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.”‘
‘”where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”‘
‘”Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.”‘
‘”Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.”‘
‘”There is no friend as loyal as a book.”‘
‘”If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”‘
‘”Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”‘
‘”The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”‘
‘”Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”‘
‘”In order to write about life first you must live it.”‘
‘”People fall in love, but have to climb out.”‘
‘”No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”‘
‘”Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”‘
‘”Everybody has something wrong with them.”‘
‘”When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”‘
‘”How little we know of what there is to know.”‘
‘”I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”‘
‘”If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”‘
‘”There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”‘
‘”Everything is your fault if you are any damn good.”‘
‘”There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.”‘
‘”There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”‘
‘”All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.”‘
‘”An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”‘
‘”No one ever stopped when they were winning.”‘
‘”The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.”‘
‘”The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.”‘
‘”We wait always for something that does not come.”‘
‘”Before you quit, you have to try”‘
‘”I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.”‘
‘”Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.”‘
‘”Religion is the opium of the poor.”‘
‘”Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.”‘
‘”Never mistake motion for action.”‘
‘”About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”‘
‘”Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”‘
‘”I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”‘
‘”I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”‘
‘”Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”‘
‘”They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”‘
‘”Every day above earth is a good day.”‘
‘”First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.”‘
‘”Everyone behaves badly–given the chance.”‘
‘”I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”‘
‘”No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”‘
‘”There is no rule on how to write.”‘
‘”Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.”‘
‘”We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”‘
‘”When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?”‘
‘”Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.”‘
‘”Worry destroys the ability to write.”‘
‘”You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood”‘
‘”A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.”‘
‘”But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.”‘
‘”For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.”‘
‘”Write hard and clear about what hurts.”‘
‘”Life is pain, so live it up while you can.”‘
‘”My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”‘
‘”If a writer stops observing, he is finished.”‘
‘”I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”‘
‘”Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”‘
‘”The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”‘
‘”The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”‘
‘”As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”‘
‘”There isnt always an explanation for everything.”‘
‘”The further you go in writing the more alone you are.”‘
‘”Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”‘
‘”The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.”‘
‘”The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.”‘
‘”There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.”‘
‘”Work could cure almost anything”‘
‘”Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”‘
‘”In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.”‘
‘”No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”‘
‘”Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.”‘
‘”Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”‘
‘”Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”‘
‘”When you have a child, the world has a hostage.”‘
‘”All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”‘
‘”No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”‘
‘”All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.”‘
‘”Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”The best writing is certainly when you are in love”‘
‘”Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”‘
‘”Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”‘
‘”Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.”‘
‘”Man is not made for defeat.”‘
‘”A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.”‘
‘”Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”‘
‘”So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.”‘
‘”You never understand anybody that loves you.”‘
‘”I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.”‘
‘”All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”‘
‘”I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg”‘
‘”Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.”‘
‘”In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.”‘
‘”Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.”‘
‘”That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.”‘
‘”The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it”‘
‘”If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”‘
‘”The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.”‘
‘”There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.”‘
‘”There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.”‘
‘”You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”‘
‘”Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.”‘
‘”What is moral is what you feel good after.”‘
‘”An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”‘
‘”I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”‘
‘”By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”‘
‘”It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”‘
‘”No Pilar,” Agustin said. “You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.”‘
‘”When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”‘
‘”If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”‘
‘”War is not won by victory.”‘
‘”The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”‘
‘”Drinking is a way of ending the day.”‘
‘”If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”‘
‘”When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”‘
‘”A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”‘