Ernest Hemingway, renowned for his distinctive, economical writing style, explored the depths of human experience with clarity and intensity. His quotes reveal his perspectives on courage, love, struggle, and the pursuit of meaning in life. Together, they offer timeless reflections on resilience, authenticity, and the art of living fully.
All thinking men are atheists.
From A Farewell to Arms
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
From A Farewell to Arms
In order to write about life first you must live it.
I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
From The Old Man and the Sea
Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
From The Sun Also Rises
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Religion is the opium of the poor
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
From For Whom the Bell Tolls
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.
From In Our Time
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
From The Sun Also Rises
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
From A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
From The Garden of Eden
The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
From The Old Man and the Sea
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
From Men Without Women
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
From A Moveable Feast
God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...
From A Farewell to Arms
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.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
From A Farewell to Arms
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
From A Farewell to Arms
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
From Death in the Afternoon
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
All thinking men are atheists.
From A Farewell to Arms
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
From A Farewell to Arms
In order to write about life first you must live it.
I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
From The Old Man and the Sea
Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
From The Sun Also Rises
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Religion is the opium of the poor
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
From For Whom the Bell Tolls
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.
From In Our Time
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
From The Sun Also Rises
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
From A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
From The Garden of Eden
The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
From The Old Man and the Sea
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
From Men Without Women
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
From A Moveable Feast
God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...
From A Farewell to Arms
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.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
From A Farewell to Arms
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
From A Farewell to Arms
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
From Death in the Afternoon
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
All thinking men are atheists.
From A Farewell to Arms
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
From A Farewell to Arms
In order to write about life first you must live it.
I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
From The Old Man and the Sea
Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
From The Sun Also Rises
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Religion is the opium of the poor
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
From For Whom the Bell Tolls
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.
From In Our Time
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
From The Sun Also Rises
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
From A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
From The Garden of Eden
The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
From The Old Man and the Sea
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
From Men Without Women
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
From A Moveable Feast
God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...
From A Farewell to Arms
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.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
From A Farewell to Arms
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
From A Farewell to Arms
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
From Death in the Afternoon
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
