Ernest Hemingway quotes

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, renowned for his concise prose and adventurous life. His works, including "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms," have left a lasting impact on world literature. He remains one of the most influential writers of the 20th century and a symbol of literary modernism. Here are 571 of his quotes:

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Ernest Hemingway