Hemingway Quotes
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. – Ernest Hemingway
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. – Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. – Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? – Ernest Hemingway
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. – Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. – Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway
The only way to do a great work is to love what you do. – Ernest Hemingway
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. – Ernest Hemingway
I know now that there is no one thing that is trueit is all true. – Ernest Hemingway
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. – Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action. – Ernest Hemingway
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. – Ernest Hemingway
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. – Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make other people more interesting. – Ernest Hemingway
Never trust a man who doesn’t drink. – Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. – Ernest Hemingway
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. – Ernest Hemingway
There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true. – Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. – Ernest Hemingway
The first draft of anything is shit. – Ernest Hemingway
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. – Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. – Ernest Hemingway
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. – Ernest Hemingway
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. – Ernest Hemingway
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. – Ernest Hemingway
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. – Ernest Hemingway
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. – Ernest Hemingway
You lose it if you talk about it. – Ernest Hemingway
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. – Ernest Hemingway
The first draft of anything is shit. – Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway
All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. – Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. – Ernest Hemingway
All things truly wicked start from innocence. – Ernest Hemingway
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. – Ernest Hemingway
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. – Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway
The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn…and anybody knows that unless he has been writing and living for at least a long time. – Ernest Hemingway