1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

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