1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I went into the room and stayed with Catherine until she died. She was unconscious all the time, and it did not take her very long to die.

I sat outside in the hall. Everything was gone inside of me. I did not think. I could not think. I knew she was going to die and I prayed that she would not. Don’t let her die. Oh, God, please don’t let her die. I’ll do anything for you if you won’t let her die. Please, please, please dear God, don’t let her die. . . . You took the baby but don’t let her die. That was all right but don’t let her die. Please, please, dear God, don’t let her die.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

While I had been angry I had demoted him from Scott to Fitzgerald

I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

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