Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Sports, Real

• 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)

• Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Fighting, Long

  "Paris Review interview". Interview with George Plimpton, Paris Review Issue 18, Spring, 1958.

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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

• Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fighting, Evil, Tonight

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4492, Simon and Schuster

• He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beach, Cat, Fighting

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.9, Hueber Verlag

• We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Time, Fighting

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn, 1946.

• The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Fighting, Machines

• I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Fighting, Men

• Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Love You, Eye

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

• We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Moving, Fighting

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