Ernest hemingway quotes

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Look at things and listen and feel.

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.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

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.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

How little we know of what there is to know.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

All thinking men are atheists.

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Never mistake motion for action.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Write drunk; edit sober.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

We wait always for something that does not come.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Most people never listen.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Every day above earth is a good day.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

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.

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.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.