1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

He’ll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

If my Valentine you won’t be, I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that’s rare. That’s rare and valuable.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it’s the illusion of real speech.

It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

The echoes of beauty you’ve seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn’t really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.