73 Quotes By Ernest Hemingway


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

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.
Ernest Hemingway on life

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.
Ernest Hemingway on life

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

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway on love

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 love

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.
Ernest Hemingway on men

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.
Ernest Hemingway on men

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

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway on strength

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.
Ernest Hemingway on success

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

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.
Ernest Hemingway on time

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

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 time

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway on travel

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

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway on trust