Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Silly, Men

• All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pride, Men, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

• The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Waste, Sin, Committed

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Party, Drunk, Lines

• It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Silly, Sin

• You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pride, Sea, Alive

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

• Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Understanding, Problem

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

• This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fall, World, Sin

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.8722, Simon and Schuster

• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Talking

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