Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

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

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

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

Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.

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

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

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

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.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Ora non e' il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you?

Prose is archite­cture, not interior decorat­ion, and the Baroque is over.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.