Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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

• I drink to make other people more interesting.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Life, Drinking

  "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Writing, Order

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

• 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

• We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Broken, Stronger

• When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Fun, Bad Ass

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Travel, Men

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

• Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Couple

• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

• There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Biblical, Two

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

• 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)

• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Time, Learning

  "Death in the Afternoon". Book by Ernest Hemingway, chapter 16, 1932.

• The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Cheating, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

• But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Arms, Nothing To Lose

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.81, Hamilton Books

• They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Soil, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, 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

• Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7290, Simon and Schuster

• No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Pain, Live It Up

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Night, Emotion

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

• There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

• A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Good Life, Biblical

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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