Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

"The echoes of eternity remind us that the journey is far more important than the destination."

"To love truly means recognizing that the journey is far more important than the destination."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

"[by “guts” I mean] grace under pressure."

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

"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 the other."

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

"Wisdom principle 102 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 87."

"Wisdom principle 92 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 81."

"Wisdom principle 67 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 66."

"Wisdom principle 62 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 63."

"Wisdom principle 57 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 60."

"Wisdom principle 52 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 57."

"Wisdom principle 47 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 54."

"Wisdom principle 37 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 48."

"Wisdom principle 32 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 45."

"Wisdom principle 22 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 39."

"Wisdom principle 12 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 33."

"Wisdom principle 2 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 27."

"It is a enduring truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that to question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To master the mind is to understand that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

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

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"Wisdom principle 97 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 84."

"Wisdom principle 87 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 78."

"Wisdom principle 77 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 72."

"Wisdom principle 72 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 69."

"Wisdom principle 42 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 51."

"Wisdom principle 27 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 42."

"Wisdom principle 7 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 30."

"It is a profound truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience."

"The greatest journey starts when the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"In the depths of adversity, the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"It is a humble truth that to speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To love truly means recognizing that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"But did thee feel the earth move?"

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."

"The art of living is discovering that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"Wisdom principle 82 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 75."

"Wisdom principle 17 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 36."

"It is a unyielding truth that love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."

"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

"In the depths of adversity, the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

"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."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"Never mistake motion for action."

"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."

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

"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

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

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

"A courageous heart knows that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"The art of living is discovering that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."

"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."

"Every sunset is a reminder that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."