"A severed femoral artery empties itself faster..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

“The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.”

“In war, one cannot say what one feels.”

“Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.”

“Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.”

“Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.”

“The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.”

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

“If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space'which remains, since space does not have an independentexistence.”