Ernest Hemingway

“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Write as well as you can and finish what you start.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I drink to make other people more interesting.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Strong in all the Broken Places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Man is not made for defeat.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Every day above earth is a good day.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Isn’t it pretty to think so.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is grace under pressure.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“In order to write about life first you must live it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Write hard and clear about what hurts. ”

“Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I am always in love.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“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

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

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

“I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Never mistake motion for action.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“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

“Life is pain, so live it up while you can.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

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

“Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“And you’ll always love me won’t you? Yes And the rain won’t make any difference? No.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.” ~ Ernest Hemingway— Ernest Hemingway

“The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Most people never listen.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Easy writing makes hard reading.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

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

“You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

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

“All thinking men are atheists.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times. All of war is that way.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary…” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“My big fish must be somewhere.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel…” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The only kind of writing is rewriting.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“You must be prepared to work always without applause.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“A man does not exist until he is drunk.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye – that was the trouble – I wanted to kiss you good night – and there’s a lot of difference.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Write drunk; edit sober.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I’ve lost 30 pounds.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“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

“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.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.” ~ Ernest Hemingway