1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

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

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.