1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I rewrote the ending of ‘Farewell to Arms’ 39 times before I was satisfied.

You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.

You don’t have to destroy me. Do you? I’m only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I’ve been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn’t want to destroy me again, would you?

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

Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn’t writing, doesn’t.

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.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.