1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

Hunger is good discipline.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.