Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Explore a curated collection of 150 quotes by Ernest Hemingway. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to — Ernest Hemingway
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wa — Ernest Hemingway
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 sw — Ernest Hemingway
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who sai — Ernest Hemingway
We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore. — Ernest Hemingway
I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful. — Ernest Hemingway
The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks bee — Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothin — Ernest Hemingway
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. — Ernest Hemingway
Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should no — Ernest Hemingway
I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted — Ernest Hemingway
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. — Ernest Hemingway
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. — Ernest Hemingway
Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged. — Ernest Hemingway
Never confuse movement with action. — Ernest Hemingway
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the — Ernest Hemingway
You’re beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I’d be in love with you. If — Ernest Hemingway
All things truly wicked start from innocence. — Ernest Hemingway
We are all broken, that's how the light gets in. — Ernest Hemingway