Ernest Hemingway quotes

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ernest Hemingway

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

Ernest Hemingway

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway

One cat just leads to another.

Ernest Hemingway

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

Ernest Hemingway

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Ernest Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway

But in modern war, you die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Ernest Hemingway

So far, 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

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway