The Old Man and the Sea Quotes

“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

“It is silly not to hope . . . Besides I believe it is a sin.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:hopesin

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:hope

“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:humilitypridesimplicity

“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

topic:humility

“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:humilitysatisfaction

“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

“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:pridekilling

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:cruelty