"Fear of death increases in exact proportion..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”

“I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.”

“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.”

“I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.”

“... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.”

“Sudden total weight loss.”

“One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

“Violence is the fear to other's ideals.”

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”