Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

Oh Jake, Brett said, We could have had such a damned 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?

So far, 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.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

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

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

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?

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.