Ernest Hemingway Quotes 2

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“There was a trout.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.”
― Ernest Hemingway, True At First Light: A Fictional Memoir

“But you have no house and no courtyard to your no-house, he thought. You have no family but a brother who goes to battle tomorrow and you own nothing but the wind and the sun and an empty belly. The wind is small, he thought, and there is no sun. You have four grenades in your pocket but they are only good to throw away. You have a carbine on your back but it is only good to give away bullets. You have a message to give away. And you're full of crap that you can give to the earth, he grinned in the dark. You can anoint it also with urine. Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man, he told himself and grinned again.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

 

“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ...”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories

“You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“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.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories

“Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. 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 Old Man and the Sea

 

“And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.'

'What did you say?'

'I said we could have everything.'

'We can have everything.'

'No, we can't.'

'We can have the whole world.'

'No, we can't.'

'We can go everywhere.'

'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.'

'It's ours.'

'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories

“Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

“Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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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.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories

“No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things”
― Ernest Hemingway, Earnest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea

“Maera lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand. He felt warm and sticky from the bleeding. Each time he felt the horn coming. Sometimes the bull only bumped him with his head. Once the horn went all the way through him and he felt it go into the sand. Some one had the bull by the tail. They were swearing at him and flopping the cape in his face. Then the bull was gone. Some men picked Maera up and started to run with him toward the barriers through the gate out the passageway around under the grandstand to the infirmary. They laid Maera down on the cot and one of the men went out for the doctor. The others stood around. The doctor came running from the coral where he had been sewing up picador horses. He had to stop and wash his hands. There was a great shouting going on in the grandstand overhead. Maera felt everything getting larger and larger and then smaller and smaller. Then it got larger and larger and larger and then smaller and smaller. Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinematograph film. Then he was dead.”
― Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

“It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well Lighted Place

“Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get any;then, after a while, the writer gets a little kick and the reader gets a little kick; and finally, if the writer's any good, he doesn't get any kick at all and the reader gets everything.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Woman are a nuisance on Safari.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Nobody likes to life anchors.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Stories

“And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn”
― Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

“Because she had done the best she could for many years back and the way they were together now was no one person's fault.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

“Grace under pressure.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Everything kills everything else in some way.”
― Ernest Hemingway