Life Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

— Ernest Hemingway

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

— Ernest Hemingway

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Lie life through its fullest”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Nobody likes to life anchors.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

— Ernest Hemingway

“He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“In life, one must (first) last." (“Dans la vie, il faut [d'abord] durer.”)”

— Ernest Hemingway

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Love is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets on it to crow.”

— Ernest Hemingway

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?”

— Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

— Ernest Hemingway

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Maybe I have had all my life in three days, he thought. If that’s true I wish we would have spent the…

— Ernest Hemingway

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken…

— Ernest Hemingway

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside…

— Ernest Hemingway

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are…

— Ernest Hemingway

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That…

— Ernest Hemingway

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is…

— Ernest Hemingway

“So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his…

— Ernest Hemingway

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And now this life that she had built again was coming to a term because he had not used iodine two weeks…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

“People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they…

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and…

— Ernest Hemingway

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world…

— Ernest Hemingway

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a…

— Ernest Hemingway

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you…

— Ernest Hemingway