Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life.

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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

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.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.