Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

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

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

This is a good place, he said. There's a lot of liquor, I agreed.

You've such a lovely temperature.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Wine is a grand thing, I said. It makes you forget all the bad.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Listen, I told him. Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.