Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:age

“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:humility pride simplicity

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:humility satisfaction

“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:eyes

“All thinking men are atheists”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is...”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:pride killing

“No animal has more liberty than the cat; but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

topic:responsibility

“you mustn't believe in killing . . . You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

topic:killing

“Wine is a grand thing . . . It makes you forget all the bad.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

topic:forgetting

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