Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.

Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

I am so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers

When she cried her whole face went to pieces.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

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

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.

No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

Never mistake motion for action.

Be patient, hand, he said. I do this for you.

I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. 'It's a bore,' he said out loud. 'What is, my dear?' 'Anything you do too bloody long.

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.

You're beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I'd be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time everything would turn over inside of me and I'd ache right through my chest.

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway

His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us.