Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Is dying hard, Daddy? No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. 'It's a bore,' he said out loud. 'What is, my… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He was probably a coward,” she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?' 'Of course. Who said it?' 'I don't know.' 'He was probably a… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked. You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Thou askest me to take things seriously? After what thou didst last night? When thou needest to kill a man and instead… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it. ― Ernest Hemingway,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
