Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

A cat has absolute honesty.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

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

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

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

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

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

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

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

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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