Ernest Hemingway Quotes
33 quotes from Ernest Hemingway — Nobel Prize-winning novelist known for The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls..
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
“I was blown up while giving out chocolate. I tried to carry a wounded man and I was wounded again in the legs and arms.”
“You are all a lost generation.”
“The sun rose as they were finishing breakfast. Nick sat against the log and ate slowly. He was sleepy and felt strange.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“I love Paris like a mistress.”
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector.”
“I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
“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.”
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
“The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”
“I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.”
“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”
“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.”
“In war: Resolution. In defeat: Defiance. In victory: Magnanimity. In peace: Goodwill.”
“The dead sleep cold.”
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
