53 quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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

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“Critics are men who sit and watch a battle from a high place and come down to shoot the survivors.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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

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

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“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.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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“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

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“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” — Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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

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“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 d--n life and one is as good as the other.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“We are all broken, that's how the light gets in” — Ernest Hemingway

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“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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