The Old Man and the Sea Quotes

“But 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.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:lifekilling

“I may not be as strong as I think . . . But I know many tricks and I have resolution.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:strength

“Pain does not matter to a man.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:painman

“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:goodbelief

“Everything kills everything else in some way.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:naturekilling

“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:loneliness

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:man

“Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:man

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

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:man

“Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:mansuffering