Ernest Hemingway quotes

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Courage is grace under pressure.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Time is the least thing we have of.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Man is not made for defeat.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.