"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"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)

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

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

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
— Ernest Hemingway

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it."
— Ernest Hemingway

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse."
— Ernest Hemingway

"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)

"Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Once in camp I put a log on a fire and it was full of ants. As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the center where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. When there were enough on the end they fell off into the fire. Some got out, their bodies burnt and flattened, and went off not knowing where they were going. But most of them went toward the fire and then back toward the end and swarmed on the cool end and finally fell off into the fire. I remember thinking at the time that it was the end of the world and a splendid chance to be a messiah and lift the log off the fire and throw it out where the ants could get off onto the ground. But I did not do anything but throw a tin cup of water on the log, so that I would have the cup empty to put whiskey in before I added water to it. I think the cup of water on the burning log only steamed the ants."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?"
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

"I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars."
— Ernest Hemingway

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

"Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Clean Well Lighted Place)

""A good story is at its best when the line between truth and fiction remains ambiguous."---in Hunting With Hemingway"
— Leicesler Hemingway

"The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

"You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Garden of Eden)

"To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me."
— The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway.

"the earth laughs in flowers."
— e.e. cummings

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
— e.e. cummings

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."
— e.e. cummings

"may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile"
— e.e. cummings (100 Selected Poems)

"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn who it touches."
— e.e. cummings

"time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough"
— e.e. cummings

"in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me"
— e.e. cummings

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— e.e. cummings

"it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as i know,or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;

if this should be, i say if this should be-
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that i may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands."
— e.e. cummings

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
— Indira Ghandi

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the perogative of the brave."
— Mahatma Ghandi

""The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer"-Ghandi"
— Mahadev Desai

""Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.""
— Mahatma Ghandi

"If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God. Denial of God we have known. Denial of truth we have not known"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."
— Benjamin Franklin

"There was never a bad peace or a good war."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
— Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
— Mark Twain

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
— Mark Twain