Hemingway Quotes

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book. – 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 way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. – Ernest Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. – Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. – Ernest Hemingway

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

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

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. – 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 is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway Quotes part 2

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

The only way to do a great work is to love what you do. – Ernest Hemingway

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. – Ernest Hemingway

I know now that there is no one thing that is true—it is all true. – 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

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

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

Never mistake motion for action. – 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

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. – Ernest Hemingway

I drink to make other people more interesting. – Ernest Hemingway

Never trust a man who doesn’t drink. – Ernest Hemingway

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

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

There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true. – Ernest Hemingway

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

The first draft of anything is shit. – 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

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

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

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. – Ernest Hemingway

It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. – Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. – Ernest Hemingway

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

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. – Ernest Hemingway

You lose it if you talk about it. – Ernest Hemingway

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. – Ernest Hemingway

The first draft of anything is shit. – Ernest Hemingway

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

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

All things truly wicked start from innocence. – Ernest Hemingway

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. – 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

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

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn…and anybody knows that unless he has been writing and living for at least a long time. – Ernest Hemingway