Ernest Hemingway Quotes

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And there’s a lot of difference.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings.

Write drunk; edit sober.

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

Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone again the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

To worry is as bad as to be afraid. It simply makes things more difficult.

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

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.

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

The first draft of anything is shit.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you’re rewriting a novel you will never be stuck.

Never mistake motion for action.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

All thinking men are atheists.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.