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
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
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral 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
“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
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
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
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
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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 Image
“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 Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image