It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — 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
There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of… — 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
I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead… — 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
“Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring… But Paris was a very old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — 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