1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I had an inheritance from my father, / It was the moon and the sun. / And though I roam all over the world, / The spending of it’s never done.

You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.

All good books have one thing in common, they are truer than if they had really happened.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

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

The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.