Top 824 Quotes & Sayings by Ernest Hemingway - Page 3

How little we know of what there is to know.

We wait always for something that does not come.

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

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

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.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Look at things and listen and feel.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

Most people never listen.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

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

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

All thinking men are atheists.