Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

Strength, Strong, Broken

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Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

Courage, Grace, Pressure

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

Drunk, Said, Keep

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

Best, Trust, Find

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

Intelligence, Time, Drunk

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

Men, Care, Long

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

Life, Love, Sleep

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

Happiness, Rarest

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

Nothing, Writing, Down

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.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Same, Another

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

War, Political, Nation

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

Learning, Great, Learned

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, After

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Matter, Nor

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway

Start, Truly, Innocence

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

Defeated, Destroyed

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Enough, Young

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway

Travel, Love, Anyone

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway

Friend, Book, Loyal

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.
Ernest Hemingway

Happiness, Good, Spring

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway

Successful, Father, Two

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

Love, Good, Death

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

Character, Writing, Living

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway

Communication, Deep, Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 21, 1899

Died: July 2, 1961

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