Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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No one you love is ever truly lost.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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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?
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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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Look at things and listen and feel.
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This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.
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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
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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.
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I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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A cat has absolute honesty.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.