Ernest Hemingway quotes

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. (Ernest Hemingway)
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. (Ernest Hemingway)
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
All thinking men are atheists.
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
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. (Ernest Hemingway)
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest Hemingway
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway