Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.”

“I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.”

“Time is the least thing we have of.”

“The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.”

“You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”

“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”

“All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”

“The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”

“What did I know best that I had not written aboutand Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.”

“French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.”

“I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.”

“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”

“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”

“Fascism is a lie told by bullies.”

“I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?”

“From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.”

“I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.”

“To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.”

“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.”

“In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.”

“I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.”