1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Not the why but the what.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.