Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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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.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.