quotes by Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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— Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know"
— Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. "
— Ernest Hemingway

"I love sleep. my life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

"All thinking men are atheists."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"Isn't it pretty to think so."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Never confuse movement with action."
— Ernest Hemingway

"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. "
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
— Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon)

""The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.""
— Ernest Hemingway

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
— Ernest Hemingway

"“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

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— Ernest Hemingway

""Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a dmaned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?""
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy, and to make plans."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"
— Ernest Hemingway