"Only that which makes you feel bad..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.”
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.”
More on Morality
“Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.”
“Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”
“One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself”
More on Guilt
“Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?”
“I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.”
“Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.”