Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Bad Ass, Hell

• Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Sleep

• To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Nice, Mean, Together

• There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Wall, Hangover

  "Complete Poems".

• Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Knives, Piano

• I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Powerful, Drinking

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

• To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Luck, Hell

  "Old Man and the Sea".

• Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
  "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
  "Yes. I want to ruin you."
  "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Fall, Want

• Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Bills, Remember

  Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.72, U of Nebraska Press

• It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

  Ernest Hemingway

  House, Hunger, Hell

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

• To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Church, Hell, States

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

• The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Sisterhood

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Suicide, Real, Prevention

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

• I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Animal, Men, Giving

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