73 Quotes By Ernest Hemingway


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.
Ernest Hemingway on good

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.
Ernest Hemingway on good

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway on good

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway on good

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.
Ernest Hemingway on good

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

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

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.
Ernest Hemingway on good

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway on good

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.
Ernest Hemingway on good

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.
Ernest Hemingway on good

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

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.
Ernest Hemingway on great

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway on happiness

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.
Ernest Hemingway on happiness

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.
Ernest Hemingway on hope

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway on imagination

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway on intelligence

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway on learning