Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• 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, Death, Rip

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  "What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet", July 2, 2011.

• The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Death, Hate

  For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 43 (1940)

• All thinking men are atheists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Death, Atheist

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.4, Hamilton Books

• Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Military

  Men at War introduction (1942)

• 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

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Suicide, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

• Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Writing, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2261, Simon and Schuster

• A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Beautiful, Death

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

• Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Home, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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