1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

The world breaks everyone 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 that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.