Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

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

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

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

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

You're my religion. You're all I've got.

Religion is the opium of the poor

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.