Ernest Hemingway

Ernest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations.

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

—Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

—Ernest Hemingway

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

—Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure.

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

So far, 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

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

—Ernest Hemingway

I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.

—Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

—Ernest Hemingway

There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.

—Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

—Ernest Hemingway

The first draft of anything is shit.

—Ernest Hemingway

I drink to make other people more interesting.

—Ernest Hemingway

Never confuse movement with action.

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

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.

—Ernest Hemingway

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

—Ernest Hemingway