1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

She should have. All woman should see it. It’s a face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the country. Every woman ought to be given a copy of this face as she leaves the altar. Mothers should tell their daughters about this face. My son” – he pointed the razor at me – “go west with this face and grow up with the country.

I sleep on my face, and then it does not frighten anybody in the morning.

Good-by,'! he said to all those who were kneeling. 'Don't be said. To die is nothing. The only bad thing is to die at the hands of this canalla.

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

I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her.

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

To understand is to forgive.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.